01x02 - Episode 2

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In New York City Today,

a game with serious implications.

The Rematch between

a world chess champion

and one of the smartest

computers ever built.

The competitive world of chess

and the entire world

is bracing for the Rematch

of the century.

It is a test to see if the human

brain can outwin a machine

able to set through 200 million

moves a second.

A six-round winner-takes-all slugfest

between the greatest chess player of all

time, the world champion Garry Kasparov,

against what some say may be the most

powerful computer ever created.

With over a million dollars

in prize money,

the 6th game series is attracting

worldwide attention.

This computer maintains a database of

every match played in the 20th century.

And Kasparov has promised

to give it a beating.

The entire world is bracing

for the historic battle

between the most powerful computer

in the world and Man. The two rivals

This game promises to be an interesting

fight between Man and Machine

Kasparov said that a simple key factor

against him in this fight,

is that he has no information

about the opponent.

When asked about his strategy,

Kasparov answers with 5 simple words:

Losing is not an option.

One thing is for sure. The room

is packed, and the air is electric.

It is the confrontation of the century.

And everyone is watching.

- What's wrong?

- Kasparov is playing extremely well.

Deep Blue played a surprising move,

but Garry found a great solution.

He is at the top of his game.

Either that or Deep Blue

isn't up to the challenge.

Debbie, take this.

Hello?

Why did you make that move?

What is going on?

What's this strategy?

Is it a mistake?

- What's happening?

- I'm not sure.

Normally Garry doesn't hesitate

like that when he has the advantage.

The last move seems

to have surprised him.

What's the goal here?

Is it a mistake?

Did it make a mistake?

No, that's impossible.

Why did it make this move?

There has to be a strategy.

It does nothing.

Am I missing something?

Why the rook? I don't see anything.

Why did you play that piece?

I just don't see it.

Four Three Two One

Go.

G7. Rook D8. F7. No, that's nothing. F7.

Rook F8. King E2. Rook D7. G7.

Rook takes 7. D takes F8. Queen.

Rook takes F8. Bishop G7. No, nothing.

Again. King E2. Rook D7. F7.

Rook takes F7. G8. Queen.

Not that either.

Rook G8. F7.

No, no, no. sh*t. Again.

F7. E3. King E2. Rook D8.

F takes E8. G8. Queen.

No. come on. King E2. Rook H1

Takes E4. Takes E3 Queen

I can't G7F7E3 Nothing

sh*t King E2 F7 G takes F7

I don't see anything

- I don't see it! I don't see it!

- Take your time.

This is too difficult.

I can't do it.

Garry! Garry!

You can do anything, Garry.

If not you, who else? The solution

is right in front of you. Stop.

Stop

Focus.

Focus

See.

Play.

Stop Focus See Play.

It was a mistake.

Deep Blue resigns.

- Mrs. Brock?

- Not now.

Helen.

Mr. Silverman is sending

you a limo to pick you up in 10.

He wants to see you.

Now.

The press is waiting.

Okay.

Mr. Kasparov!

How did you Find Deep Blue?

I couldn't. Unlike last year's match,

she isn't on stage this time.

Mr. Kasparov, can you explain

what happened at move 44?

You waited an awful

long time before playing.

I was taken aback by Deep Blue's move.

It was unexpected.

What do you mean?

On move 36, if I hadn't found King G1,

Deep Blue could have saved the game.

It was a very subtle move.

A surprising one.

Then on move 44,

I'm not sure why it played its rook.

Did it see something I didn't?

I doubt that.

The inconsistency threw me, I think.

The important thing is I won.

But for a moment, Deep Blue

wasn't playing like a machine.

How was it playing then?

Like a human being.

I hadn't anticipated that.

Do you feel like Deep Blue's performance

is better than last year?

I don't know yet.

You'd have to ask my friend PC.

- Mr. PC, care to comment?

- Yes

Mr. Kasparov

- What a sweetheart!

- Thanks. His name is Tyler.

Klara. Garry's mom.

Michael. Helen Brock's +1.

Mr. PC, has Deep Blue improved

since last year?

Do you feel like you failed?

Is Mr. Kasparov just too good

for Deep Blue?

- Mr. Kasparov, please!

- I'll see you tomorrow.

Mr. PC

- Garry Meet Helen's husband.

- Michael.

Garry. Please to meet you.

He has his mother's smile.

Thankfully he's got my personality.

- Do you have any children Garry?

- Yes.

They are here with you?

Being a world champion makes

family life difficult.

f*ck! f*ck! What the f*ck is going

on for f*ck's sake?

She played incredible

during the practice games.

And then today, other than a few good

defensive moves

and bad positions, nothing.

Total sh*t.

But it had Garry questioning himself.

- You showed her how to play like that.

- But she didn't do anything after that.

36 is a good move.

But 44

It was just a blunder.

It was just a blunder.

- Hello?

- Hi, it's me.

Don't hang up, please.

I'm in New York, and I just wanted

to let Sofia know I'm thinking of her.

Stop lying, Garry.

When you play chess,

you think of nothing but chess.

That's the way it's always been.

Nothing else has ever mattered.

Goodbye.

- Mama!

- Coming!

Let's go celebrate my victory.

Roger!

- What is going on?

- Nothing. I won. Can't I be happy?

- We're going out! Dinner and a movie!

- Garry

Shouldn't you rest up for Game 2?

I've got the feeling Game 1

was harder than you expected.

Game 1 would have been easier

if I had the analytical data

of Deep Blue's games

between 1996 and today.

Please. Not again.

You know what your problem is?

You have no idea

of what I do or what I need

because you don't understand

anything about chess.

I don't give a sh*t that you are

able to negotiate 50 000 more

for an advertising contract.

The only thing I care about is winning

at chess. And to do that

- You need the data to build your strategy.

- Exactly.

But I've already asked a dozen times.

I don't know what else I can do.

Your job.

Coming?

George, I do

Listen, I really feel there's

You guaranteed the machine

would work better than last year.

And we delivered on that. Every simulation

we completed before the game

She lost.

She played well,

as far as I'm concerned.

She lost.

Mrs. Brock wants an explanation.

- Kasparov was stronger.

- So, I don't think you understand.

We've sunk millions of dollars into your

machine so it could learn one thing:

how to play like a Grandmaster.

After what we saw today, can we say that

Deep Blue played like a Grandmaster?

The first game revealed

Kasparov's strategy.

He used a variation

of the Silver Gambit opening

combined with an inverted diagonal.

It's an extremely complex chess opening.

We're gonna work on her all night.

Deep Blue will play better in Game 2.

I don't want it to be better.

I want it to be perfect.

Take this. Make sure you pick it up

when it rings. I'm getting Mister

I'm on it.

What's a Silver Gambit?

I have no idea.

I just made it up so she'd leave us alone.

Hello?

- Hi honey.

- Hello!

- I see you got a cellphone!

- What makes you say that?

I can tell from the noise that you're

outside, and I know you hate phone booths.

Well, you have no idea what New Yorkers

do in those phone booths!

How are you, sexy pants?

Mr. world famous chess champion

acting up again?

Well, let's just say that yes,

he is a genius.

And yes, he can also be a right pain

in the arse.

What's bothering him this time?

The fact that I know nothing

about chess.

As if that ever stopped me

from managing someone's carrier.

- Have you tried?

- Have you tried what?

To understand chess!

- Do you want me to stay for a bit?

- No, I think I'm going to sleep.

Garry

Roger is a good agent.

And a good person.

See you tomorrow.

This is Helen Brock leaving a message.

Call me back at your earliest convenience.

Thank you.

Yes, yes, of course.

No. IBM will do everything in our power

to keep you very comfortable.

- How long will it be?

- 12 days. Top.

That's all we need you for.

We'll organize accommodation Car

King to G7.

Knight takes E8. You're already in

trouble according to her calculations.

- King to H6

- Rook F3.

Queen takes E8.

Hi, this is Helen Brock.

I'm leaving another message.

Please call me back at your earliest

convenience. Thank you.

- Rook G3.

- Pawn to F6.

Pawn to F5.

Hi. It's me again. I just spoke to him.

I believe he is in.

I don't get it. I don't get why Kasparov

agreed to this Rematch.

What does he have to gain from it?

Last year,

Deep Blue beat him in Game 1.

He hadn't lost a single game

in what 11 years?

All the sudden he loses to a machine?

I think he felt stained by the defeat.

- Pawn to H4.

- No, winning is not enough.

He wants to demolish Deep Blue

so that no one can ever question

his supremacy. Bishop E3.

- Typical Kasparov arrogance.

- No. So human

King to H5.

- Bishop E2.

- Damnit!

She checkmated you in 28 moves!

There is nothing wrong with her.

Deep Blue is performing perfectly.

She only took 0.172 seconds of thinking

before playing these last few moves.

- What more do they want?

- It's not about speed, is it?

She can play a move every 10 minutes,

as long as she wins.

Maybe that's our mistake.

Kasparov was rattled by two moves.

The 36th and the 44th.

He said he felt like Deep Blue

was playing like a human being.

I don't see where you're going with this.

Okay

Sirs, ID please.

Thank you.

- Thanks.

- Thank you.

Mr. PC! My name is Peter. From Stanford.

I just got off the plane.

I've been analyzing Deep Blue

and I have some ideas

on how to improve the "Control flow".

They said to run them by you.

Yes. Of course. Give me a minute.

All right.

- Who are all these people?

- I don't know.

Hey! There you are. Okay,

so we've added a few folks to the team.

Our new strategic advisers have

a few questions for you.

And I want you to keep them up to speed

on everything concerning this machine.

But I haven't approved them and

Deep Blue can't lose game 2.

It has to win.

- Mrs. Brock?

- Yes?

- Gentlemen

- Paul.

Hello.

- Xavier

- Hello Paul.

New York City

is very grey in the spring, is it?

New York City is grey all year.

Hi.

This is Xavier Valens.

He is a British grandmaster.

And the others?

Patrick Walker, Viktor Bogdanov

and Liam Vos. They're all grandmasters.

- But you're here.

- Yes, but they outrank me.

I'm way below their level.

Brock got some of the best chess players

in the world here in the past 24 hours.

- So, it looks like the fun is over.

- We don't need them.

I think she would beg to differ.

Thank you.

- He wants to press charges!

- Don't make him talk with him!

- He may just have to smooth the edges

- He has to concentrate.

It has to be Garry's decision, I'm sorry.

Have a good day.

Garry. Your old lawyer

is on the hotel phone.

He says he urgently needs

to talk to you.

You can talk to him after the game!

- Yes?

- Mr. Kasparov? Andrew Green.

I represented you four years ago,

during your divorce.

Yes, yes, I know. What's the problem?

Your ex-wife's lawyer contacted me

this morning.

Why?

She claims that

you've been harassing her client.

What?

Mrs. Vassiliev is considering

pressing charges if you don't stop.

I called her once!

That may be so, but it turns out your

mother reached out to her several times.

Even though your ex has asked

her to stop.

Tell her lawyer I got the message.

Where are you going?

To get changed.

Game 2 is starting soon.

Garry Take some time

Time to refocus.

- I'm a champion, I'm always focused.

- Garry!

Why?

I miss Sofia.

I haven't seen her since your divorce.

I spend 95% of my life traveling

around the world for tournaments.

Then don't compete as much!

That's not how it works.

And you know it.

Besides, you see that Alysa is against it.

She sent her lawyer after me!

If you were more present in your

daughter's life, maybe she wouldn't have!

Then who told me to put chess

before everything else?

Come on, you're on.

I can't do it. I can't.

How do you American say?

Game on?

Game on.

Okay What do I need to know?

So far, not much.

Could you please be less precise?

This is the closed version

of a Ruy Lopez.

It's a very very classic opening

for both White and Black.

And?

And, in Spain, they call

it the Spanish t*rture.

The idea is to play very methodically

to gradually suffocating your opponent.

What we don't know yet is

Who's torturing whom?

It's certainly taking its time.

I don't know what's going on.

This is unusual.

Where is PC?

Find him!

But why?

- Surely not

- It makes no sense.

All of that time for that.

Why not queen B6?

I mean, it's a more natural move.

Rook A7 would be strong as well.

Why did she play bishop B4?

What does it do?

Why think for 20 minutes just for that?

What's going on?

Tell me what's happening.

We don't quite understand

Deep Blue's choice

- Why not rook in A7?

- Queen B6 then

It doesn't make any sense

Maybe Black cannot

Yeah, but still Yeah, but surely

queen B6 is stronger, I mean

But I don't see what Black can do

Clearly D6 doesn't solve the problem

with Queen B6.

Why else would she

in Bishop E4?

Stop! Stop! Just stop!

Just look.

Paul.

Why is he smiling?

Why think for almost 20 minutes

just to play bishop E4?

Queen B6 would have been

the better choice.

Am I missing something?

What am I missing something here?

Is it a trap?

Or it's nothing.

What is it seeing that I'm not?

Damnit!

Think. Think, Garry.

It shouldn't have played bishop E4.

This is a machine.

They are materialistic by nature.

Why not play Queen B6?

What is it seeing that I'm not?

What can I do now? What can I play?

Stop Look See Play

Three Two One Go.

Something's wrong.

Come on Move!

Stop

Focus

See

Play.

Stop

Something's wrong. Think.

Am I missing something?

What am I missing?

Is it a trap? Or it's nothing.

What is it seeing that I'm not?

Something's wrong.

Think, Garry. Think.

This is a machine.

They are materialistic by nature.

Why think for almost 20 minutes

just to play bishop E4?

Queen B6 would

have been the better choice

What is it seeing that I'm not?

Something is wrong

Think Garry, think. Is it a trap?

Or it's nothing. Damnit!

Bishop E4 What is it seeing

that I'm not? Focus

Think Garry, think! This is a trap

Or it's nothing. Stop

Am I missing something?

Think think

I don't see anythingPlay.

I just don't see Something's wrong.

Think, Garry. Think.

Focus

See

Play.

Again?

I took anti-nausea medication

before the game. It didn't work.

So, you puke when we lose.

And you puke when we win!

- What?

- Kasparov capitulated on the 45th move.

You are allowed to be happy!

Look who it is!

Wait, wait. You have to explain

to me what happened.

- Why did Deep Blue take so long to play?

- It was nothing.

Garry said that Deep Blue

had played like a human being

on the 36th and the 44th move.

So I We decided to give her a more

human strategy to give a higher priority

to the safety of her king.

PC added a few lines of codes

to Deep Blue's program

so that she would pause for a while.

I mean Obviously she waited forever

even though she probably knew

which move she was gonna

play within the first seconds.

It's an old trick for some moves

she pauses, other she plays immediately,

to make her seem unpredictable

to Garry.

Like a like a human would be.

And then Kasparov spent the rest

of the game trying to figure out

the tactic behind Deep Blue's move.

Deep Blue also played

the next 8 moves pretty well.

Whatever it is, Deep Blue won.

And I want more of this.

Congratulations.

This is exactly what I want.

This is great. Keep going.

Champagne everyone!

Hi. Need a hand?

Does it look like I do?

Well Sort of, yeah. I'm Jennifer.

- Roger Laver. Nice to meet you.

- Nice to meet you. Have a sit.

Thank you. I don't know how

to work these things. At all.

It's okay. The internet

is just like a giant library.

Search correctly

and you'll find what you need.

Okay.

- Tell me what you're after.

- Chess.

Today, computers and artificial

intelligence took a giant step forward,

as undefeated world chess giant

Garry Kasparov was beat by Deep Blue.

Our guest, the president of

the American Chess Association is here

to explain how Deep Blue managed

to beat the reigning champ.

I have an important announcement to make.

Tonight, is my last show.

Just like Kasparov, I'm about

to be replaced by a machine.

Let's get some fresh air.

Come.

- PC?

- Yeah?

They left a little bit if you want some.

Chess players love their booze.

PC?

I never liked that nickname. PC

Perpetually cringy. I've always hated it.

Then why do you tell people

to call you that?

Because it's easy. Easy things are all I

can handle when I am surrounded by people.

I'm deleting the pause function.

- Why?

- I should never have listened to you.

What?

What are you talking about? You came to me

asking for new strategies. That is my

We won! What is the problem?

It was totally legitimate.

What I care about is watching

a confrontation

between human and artificial intelligence

to discover which is superior

on the chessboard.

Your strategy didn't prove

Deep Blue is any smarter.

Okay.

But no one told Deep Blue

when to pause.

She chose the most appropriate

and effective moment in relation

to the move she was going to play.

She made that choice. Not us. She did.

So, if that's not artificial intelligence

then I don't know what is.

So why did they add more people to our

team in the middle of the Rematch?

I want Deep Blue to win because

of her superior intelligence.

Not psychological tricks.

I want her to prove the entire world

that she can outperform Kasparov.

I'm deleting the function.

The computer chose what we all thought

was a good decision at the time

King F1, and Garry played rook B8,

and now came the k*lling move,

rook A6,

attacking the queen,

attacking the bishop.

We all assumed that queen takes queen,

D takes C6 was forced, and Garry

Let's go.

play this particularly

endgame choice to resign.

I must say that there was an emotion

in my auditorium and the press room

Garry, I need to talk to you.

Anybody even remotely connected

to the game,

we all thought that Garry made

an appropriate decision and resign.

But what was amazing to each

and every one of us,

is when we all started

getting tons of emails

from our chess community

"Why did Garry Kasparov resign?".

I resign.

I shouldn't have resigned.

- I shouldn't have resigned.

- The game could have ended in a draw.

The final position

of the game was a draw.

Perpetual check. Queen to E3.

Draw

How do you know that?

I printed this out at a cybercafé

near the hotel.

It's a chat stream from a chess forum.

Internet chess players,

with the help of computer engines started

analyzing the variations.

- And

- Discovered that a draw was possible.

And I couldn't.

Amateurs played better than I did.

Never in the history of chess,

that any champion

or former world champion

would ever resign a drawing position.

I know of no historical

precedent for it

So amazing to think all this power

of computation

and intelligence is just a bunch

of gibberish on a computer screen.

I disagree. This is poetry.

Where you see gibberish, I see

alexandrines of mathematical formulas,

routines, opcodes,

complex expression

You okay? What's going on?

This here I have no idea what it is.

That's no surprise. Given the number

of people who are working on this, no?

I'm the only one who can approve a change

in Deep Blue's programming.

I review every line of code

that goes into my baby.

What do these alexandrines

actually do?

I don't know.

I have never seen this before.