'Rematch': a psych-thriller on a historic chess showdown

British actor Christian Cooke plays world chess champ Garry Kasparov, who in 1997, faced off against supercomputer Deep Blue in a historic six-game match.

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Beyond the chessboard, "Rematch" unravels the intense, true-life psychological thriller of Garry Kasparov's 1997 defeat by Deep Blue.

In 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov faced off against Deep Blue, a supercomputer developed by IBM, in a historic six-game match. Kasparov emerged victorious with a score of 4-2. But in a shocking turn of events during the 1997 rematch in New York, Deep Blue defeated Kasparov 3½-2½.

Chess might seem like just a game, but the image of the world's greatest mind bested by a machine sent chills around the globe. At the time, The New York Times even wrote: "The future of humanity is on the line." If a computer could outsmart a human in chess, what else could it outthink us in?