Rematch is a 2024 English-language French-Hungarian television miniseries starring Christian Cooke as the world chess champion Garry Kasparov, depicting his 1997 match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue.
The series is described as a historical psychological thriller, and details Kasparov taking on Deep Blue in 1997, the first time a world champion lost a chess match to a computer.
[2] The cast has Christian Cooke as Garry Kasparov and also includes Sarah Bolger, Trine Dyrholm, Aidan Quinn, Tom Austen, Luke Pasqualino and Orion Lee.
[4] The co-creator and screenwriter, André Gulluni, originally from Quebec just like director Yan England, told the French newspaper Les Echos that it took seven years in total for the project to become reality: "It took a long time and on more than one occasion I thought we could never finish it.
That is very different from the way things go in America where everything must happen very fast [...] Moreover, it was a really complicated story that required a lot of research [...] I had the luxury of being able to polish it and of having a brilliant script doctor who spotted all the mistakes and flaws that could take us too far away from the topic.
"[5] Gulluni concluded by saying: "Something happened during this rematch because of some added code lines by one of IBM programmers to make think Deep Blue was hesitating, which had a huge impact on destabilising Kasparov.