Writer-director Andrew Bujalski is making his first trip to the Sundance Film Festival this month, with his NEXT <=> section comedy “Computer Chess.” The film will have its world premiere Jan ...

The period comedy "Computer Chess" pays homage to a time in the not-so-distant past that feels like ancient history. A time-capsule look at computer-nerd culture in 1980, Andrew Bujalski's ...

"If computer chess theory holds and we observe the fact that micro-processor speed will double every one and one-half years, then maybe in 3 or 4 years, the PC based programs will come close to ...

So when the Austin-based filmmaker got it into his head to make a movie about a computer chess tournament circa 1980, he cast most of the roles with geeky nonprofessional actors who actually knew ...

Chess enthusiasts watch Garry Kasparov on a television monitor at the start of the sixth and final match against IBM’s Deep Blue computer in New York on May 11, 1997. Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images ...

There is an immediate sense of change afoot in “Computer Chess,” Andrew Bujalski‘s fourth feature as writer-director, visible to anyone familiar with his previous work. While Bujalski’s ...