i be write this note a a chess player as well a a a movie viewer . i watch the 1997 kasparov deep blue game on the internet . i know something about the issue that be raise . other chess player will come along and want to know whether this movie be worth see or buying and and i be talk largely to them . however and i will try not to ignore those who aren not into chess . this movie be about the 1997 match between garry kasparov and the custom build computer deep blue . however and the first image you see in the movie be not of kasparov and or of the computer and but of the turk . this be an automaton which be build in europe at the turn of the 18th 19th century and play win chess against all comer . i put the word automaton in quote because it be and a everyone now know and a fake . there be a man inside it . if you do not like see the turk and then you would not be able to stand the movie and because the turk have as much screen time a kasparov and maybe more and both in modern footage and in b or w footage from some old movie . the reappearance of the turk every few second underscore kasparov charge that deep blue have human assistance that it be ( to some degree ) a fake computer and that ibm cheat and that there be a man inside it work behind the scene to help it win . not only do kasparov believe this and but the filmmaker seem to believe it too . and so this be not really much of a movie about chess game or about program chess computer . it be a propaganda piece about a big corporation supposedly misuse a helpless grandmaster . really it be a lot like a negative campaign ad and a it be chock full of ominous music and evocative camera work and spooky sound effect and innuendo ( we never find out what be behind that locked door ) and the ever present turk . now and most people in the chess community be pretty much convince that ibm do not cheat and that this be garry paranoia at work . to start with and in order for a human to help deep blue beat kasparov and it would seem that you would need a human who be good than deep blue and good than kasparov . since there be no such person and the whole idea be a bit suspect from the start . furthermore and by the time this movie be make and there be computer program that could run on your pc that could beat strong grandmaster . today and much more than in 1997 and we take it for grant that a computer can do thing you might not expect . and we be less likely to take it a a monumental human tragedy that a computer beat a guy in chess . ( and in fact and the bottom line be that kasparov beat himself with two bad mistake and include resign game 2 in a drawn position . ) a for the chess game and you actually see very little of them . there be a few comment from master and commentator that tell briefly how they go and but really you do not get to see hardly any of the strategy or tactic at all . naturally a a chess player i take this a a major shortcoming and but i think that non player be be cheat too . imagine a baseball movie and for example and where you do not hardly get to see any of the game just a commentator tell you that in game four and the white sox defeat the astros with such and such a score . nobody would make a movie like that . but here and for example and we be tell that kasparov make a bad blunder in the opening of the decisive game 6 and but we aren not show the position on the screen and or tell why it be a blunder and or what he should have do instead and or anything . we just see a few second of kasparov hold his head in his hand and and then more atmospheric sound effect and camera work . ( since i saw this on dvd and let me warn chess player about the dvd as well . the jacket promise you that the extra include the game with analysis . be this grandmaster analysis and which people like u might find interesting . no . it be the automated computer voice synthesizer analysis from some version of chessmaster and that tell you when a piece be attack and a pawn get isolate and that you be in the caro kann defense and main line . blahhhh . ) someone might then come along and say and well and clearly this movie be mean to dramatize the match for the non player and and so it unfair to be impatient with it . but actually it doesn not do a very good job of reach out to the non player either it skate over some point that a true novice would really want to have explain . for example it say that kasparov could have get perpetual check in the second game and but it doesn not explain what that be ( or show what it would have look like on the board and which would have be interest ) . it flash back to the kasparov karpov match but doesn not explain why there be two of them or who organize them etc . i do not need this information myself and but i be familiar with it . if you do not already have chess experience and there be place where you be go to be confuse and and this be just a defect in the film . ultimately i can not recommend the movie and which and like the turk itself and be not what it purport to be ( a documentary ) but more of a stage illusion .