Episode 30 : COMPUTER CHESS / Top 3 “Movie Nerds”

Summary: NERD ALERT!!! Up next it's COMPUTER CHESS the completely BIZARRE yet strangely alluring (2013) film from Writer/Director Andrew Bujalski. Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, COMPUTER CHESS transports us to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. Delightfully retro and oddly humorous, Bujalski takes us down a rabbit hole of head scratching turns and offers a conclusion that may just question artificial intelligence as we know it and what it may mean to us in the future. It's as odd a film as you'll see this year! Check it out, see if we put the pieces together.