Written by Steve Sheinkin and Chess Grandmaster Maurice Ashley, with illustrations by Thien Pham, the book tells the true story of the 1997 chess showdown between world champion Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer. It blends sports-style suspense with historical analysis and reflections on artificial intelligence.

It’s May 1997 in Manhattan, New York. World champion Garry Kasparov is about to begin a six-game match against Deep Blue, the cutting-edge super computer developed by a team of visionaries at IBM. No machine has ever defeated a chess champion in a multi-game match.

Will the human mind prevail? Or is this checkmate for humankind?

240 pages