Being involved in this project, and getting to work with a legend and one of my personal heroes, was a dream come true. One of the greatest strategic thinkers alive, he’s a natural fit for Hearthstone-a game that, much like chess, requires a deep amount of strategy, preparation and mental acuity. “Kasparov is the perfect documentary subject. Oppenheim has also been a big Kasparov fan ever since seeing the documentary Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine. “I first watched it when I was 10 years old, and its hyper-stylized, paranoid thriller elements-made up from the stuff of everyday life-really stuck with me and went on to influence my work as a director,” he says.

The documentary approach gave us the freedom to show Kasparov’s incredible journey of learning Hearthstone and going up against A.I. “We wanted to make sure we told the tales of the match in 1997 and set the scene for Garry’s new challenge in Hearthstone. was iconic,” says Sinan Dagli, BSSP’s executive creative director. In fact, he is still playing today and climbing the ranks of the game.” Kasparov also loved the idea and was all-in. So when BSSP brought us the idea of bringing Kasparov to learn and play Hearthstone against an A.I., we felt we had something powerful to play with. He is being rated as world number one player. Many believe that Kasparov was the best chess player in history, I do that.

He lost the title 2000 to Vladimir Kramnik. After a dispute with the FIDE he set up his own organization, the Professional-Chess-Association. Kasparov back in 1997,” Activision CMO Fernando Machado tells Muse. In 1985 Kasparov became World Chess Champion and held the world title until 1993. And the plot twist in the middle, while sinking the original premise, does make the piece warmer than it would have been-and probably saved Garry from some déjà vu nightmares down the line. It’s a fun way of trying to broaden the game’s appeal to potential new players.

Kasparov chess set