In 1997, the responsibility of defending our “higher” intelligence was laid at the feet of Garry Kasparov. He rose to the ultimate challenge in the guise of a chess-match against IBM’s Deep Blue. Pitching the human brain against the mathematical machine captured the world’s imagination. The media-coverage of this symbolic event ensured that it was followed and remembered by millions. Not just a film for chess-fanatics (not much chess is featured), it looks deep behind the scenes, into the emotions and anxiety that rocked the event. It shows how an acknowledged genius took on a corporate giant and, due to tension, pressure, corporate politics and psychological warfare, lost. Six years on, a haunted Kasparov returns to those fateful days and we meet Deep Blue’s creators, and hear their side of this fascinating, but controversial, story.