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Computer Chess, the winner of the prestigious Alfred P Sloan Feature Film Prize at this year's Sundance, is this warm, witty, cerebral film-maker's most innovative and playful picture to date.
With Computer Chess, Andrew Bujalski, the American indie auteur known for no-budget gems Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation, has made a profoundly idiosyncratic and strangely offbeat movie about ...
Read the Empire Movie review of Computer Chess. It's fashionable to dismiss mumblecore as prone to obtuseness, but Bujalski offers a wryly funny ...
Computer Chess is a mostly black and white, faux-documentary about a vintage, quite hipster-y subject, and is quite possibly the most mumblecore-y mumblecore film to have ever existed.
After barely managing to sit through the first 10 minutes, in which creators of rival computer chess programs at a weekend convention mumbled their way through a panel discussion so lethally dull it ...
A French coder has developed what is thought to be the smallest-sized chess computer program. BootChess is only 487 bytes in size, and the code can be run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux computers.
The Deep Blue supercomputer was a chess computer developed by IBM. The project began at Carnegie Mellon University with chess computers Hitech, Chiptest, and Deep Thought that used advances in custom ...
Computer Chess An endearingly nutty, proudly analog tribute to the ultra-nerdy innovators of yesteryear, this quasi-mockumentary is easy to admire in spirit even when its haphazard construction ...
In 1992, after watching his prodigy playing in Dortmund, Germany, Kasparov said: "There are many players, but they don't play chess, they move the pieces. Kramnik plays chess." Kramnik concurred with ...
Deep Fritz, a chess-playing computer, has beaten human counterpart world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik in a six-game battle in Bonn, Germany. Deep Fritz won by four points to two, after taking the ...