SXSW 2013: ‘Computer Chess’ Trailer

One of the more intriguing and odd looking films set to screen at this year’s SXSW is Andrew Bujalski‘s Computer Chess. The film originally had its world premier at Sundance just a couple months ago, and centers around the high stakes world of computer chess in the 80s.

I’m very excited to check this one out during the festival, but there’s currently no theatrical release date as of yet. Hit the jump for the trailer and synopsis.

Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, COMPUTER CHESS transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to know it in the future.