Chess Programmer's Nerd Books and Movies?

[smatovic]

I was recently flashed by The Queen's Gambit Netflix series, and in Neural
Networks for Chess by Dominik Klein he mentions the novel Schachnovelle by
Stefan Zweig (1942) and the movie Pi (1998), both already consumed, I would
like to add:

- Fermat's Last Theorem (1997)
- A Beautiful Mind (book: 1998, movie: 2001)
- and maybe the movie The Accountant (2016)

Any further must-reads/watchs for the non-NTs in here?

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Srdja

[dangi12012]

- CUDA by Example: An Introduction to General-Purpose GPU Programming

Good storyline.

[smatovic]

- CUDA by Example: An Introduction to General-Purpose GPU Programming

Good storyline.

TAOCP by Donald Knuth?

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil"


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Srdja

[Deberger]

More Than Robots (2022)

[j.t.]

There is this weird movie called "Computer Chess".

[j.t.]

Chess Fever - feat. José Capablanca.

[rjgibert]

October Sky
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Contact
Man From Earth

The first 2 are based on true stories. The 2nd 2 are fictional. The last one is a low budget cult classic based on a play.

[benb]

In the 1966 movie "Fantastic Voyage" a character builds a computer to play chess in his spare time. I recall this is a very minor part of the movie, but the idea was influential for me.

[Guenther]

Lars Gustafsson: Bernard Foys tredje rockad (Bernard Foy’s Third Castling)
https://www.themodernnovel.org/europe/w ... n/bernard/

[Rémi Coulom]

AlphaGo - The Movie