The six-part series follows the Russian world chess champion Garry Kasparov (Christian Cooke) as he takes on a match against the IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue in a human vs machine battle.

Discover the evolution of AI and its impact on technology, society, and humanity in a gripping narrative by Gary Rivlin.

For instance, IBM’s Deep Blue beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1996–97 ... an AI program developed by Alphabet-owned DeepMind, defeated Go champion Lee Sedol. Now, AI-powered machines ...

One of the earliest and most influential examples of artificial intelligence was Christopher Strachey's draughts (checkers) ...