Garry Kasparov dominated chess for twenty years, then fought a computer and lost — and then turned his ferocious competitive intelligence against Vladimir Putin in one of the most dangerous political gambles in modern Russian history. His life spans three distinct arenas of combat: the chessboard, the machine, and the authoritarian state.

This episode traces Kasparov from his rise as the youngest world chess champion in history through the landmark 1997 match against IBM's Deep Blue that changed the relationship between humans and machines, and his transformation into a political dissident who risked everything to oppose Putin's regime.

• Kasparov's prodigious rise and his epic rivalry with Anatoly Karpov during the Cold War
• The 1997 Deep Blue rematch — the accusations of cheating and what it meant for AI
• His transf ...