[nobodysfool]

In short, Deep Blue had 'preparation' against Kasparov from all his game histories, while Kasparov did not have the same benefit.

Kasparov had the benefit of playing all those games as well. ;)

As for your allegations of unfairness, code tweaks were allowed between games. It was part of the rules. Just not during games. And if Kasparov didn't think the rules were fair he could have declined the match.

[nemothekid]

>Kasparov had the benefit of playing all those games as well. ;)

You missed his point, its not about practice. The top chess players often study their opponents to understand what types of moves they make and in what situations they make those moves. If Kasparov were to play any other player in highly ranked matched both players would go and study their opponents move to get an insight in the way they think.

The "unfairness" in the Deep Blue match (or what made the Deep Blue match unlike other top-level play Chess), is that Deep Blue had a deep understanding of Kasparov's moves, but Kasparov had no information about Deep Blue's moves. And to make matters worse, any information he had built up in the previous games were erased once they tweaked the code.