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‘Rematch’ and a retro chess problem that baffled Kasparov
27 Oct. 2025
“A game starts with e4; on the 5th move, a knight takes a rook and checkmate. What are the moves played?” That question is taken verbatim from the TV mini-series, ‘Rematch’ (2024), a dramatisation of the chess match between world champion Garry Kasparov and the IBM super-computer, Deep Blue. While not as wildly popular as ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ the show is terrific: a psychological thriller that should engage both chess fans and the general audience. Taking a leaf from the earlier hit series, ‘Rematch’ stresses authenticity in its portrayal of the game, including precise recreations of positions seen in the real match. As a problemist, though, what intrigued me most is a scene in which Kasparov is challenged to solve an unusual chess puzzle – to reconstruct a five-move game as stipulated above. That scene, which I have added to YouTube, even includes an animated diagram to represent his thought process. This is actually a genuine retro-analytical problem that was posed to Kasparov in real life. Let’s look at both the fictional and factual circumstances under which he attempted the problem, with opposite outcomes.
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