Computer Chess

2013 • 91 minutes

About this movie

Poignant, absurd and downright hilarious, Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess follows the trials and tribulations of a group of oddball geniuses over the weekend of a computer chess tournament circa 1980. As they pit their chess programmes against each other's they're met with right-on new-agers, voracious swingers and a computer that appears to be self aware... Computer Chess transports viewers to that fleeting moment when the contest between man and machine seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it.

Ratings and reviews

Nostalgic and very enjoyable