IBM’s Deep Blue Stuns Chess King; ‘stop. reset.’: Correct

All 55,000 square feet of the Park Avenue Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall are focused on a table not much bigger than the chess board atop it.

There’s more than a world chess championship at stake in “The Machine,” Matt Charman’s play based on the 1997 re-match between grandmaster Garry Kasparov and “Deep Blue,” the computer that IBM built to beat him.