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...person, Kasparov is something of a surprise. Handsome and burly, he has a temper and psychology more befitting a garrulous European uncle than a genius geek who spends his life hunched over a chessboard. During appetizers he enthralls the table with discourses on a diverse array of topics, including hot chocolate (the world's best is found at Cafe Angelica on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris), Kremlin politics ("Russia has no choice other than Lebed!") and his infant son Vadim--"I want to stay on top long enough for him to recognize his father as a champion...
...chess building blocks it can understand relate to one another? Benjamin has spent the past year helping Deep Blue's programmers encode thousands of positional evaluation rules, leavening the program's computational prowess with what one might call street smarts. "The hardware can detect certain features of a chessboard," says Campbell. "Rooks on open files, pins, pawn structure. It's a matter of assigning weights to how important these features are in a given position...
...cast therefore stands up well to the weakened challenges of this movie version, as Emma attempts to maneuver them as carefully as pieces on a chessboard. That part of the entertainment doesn't disappear: we watch Emma think she's doing all right, while actually falling prey to subtler subversions. Only Toni Collette as Harriet Smith mixes far too many portions of foolishness and idiocy with the easily influenced callowness her character demands...
...Garry Kasparov, the best chess player in the world and quite possibly the best chess player who ever lived, sat down across a chessboard from a machine, an IBM computer called Deep Blue, and lost...
...either player holds his head in his hands for half an hour or so, a fan can wander off for such ballpark staples as hot dogs and popcorn or have a trick picture taken that shows himself or herself sitting across the table from Kasparov. The show is part chessboard, part boardwalk...