Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke will direct The Machine, a new play about chess player Garry Kasparov's battle with the supercomputer Deep Blue, written by Matt Charman.

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And the earlier battle between Vasily Smyslov and Botvinnik is probably one for chess aficionados only.

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The most famous head to head battle was in 1997 when a computer called Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov.

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