Nova episode on the Kasparov versus Deep Thought chess match in 1989. Deep Thought is the precursor to the IBM Deep Blue computer that beat Kasparov in 1997. Deep Blue is a precursor to the IBM DeepQA Watson computer to play in the gameshow Jeopardy! next month. People featured: GM Gary Kasparov Feng Hsiung Hsu Murray Campbell Thomas Anantharam GM Robert Byrne Ken Thompson Herbert Simon Jonathan Schaeffer Shelby Lyman The documentary also features the chess-playing mechanical Turk in the 19
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