The match took place from 10 to 17 February in Philadelphia, with a prize fund of $500,000. For his victory, Kasparov received $400,000. After his sensational loss in the first game, Kasparov once again showed the resilience and fighting spirit that so often characterised his career. He won the second game and levelled the match.
Following two draws in games three and four, Kasparov also won the fifth game, taking a 3–2 lead going into the sixth and final encounter. A draw in that game would have been enough to secure overall victory, but Kasparov wanted more and dismantled the tactically superior computer with a strategic masterpiece.
A remarkable victory in which Kasparov demonstrated the weaknesses that even the best computers of the time still possessed. Thirty years later, computers have more than caught up, and even programs running on mobile phones are stronger than the best humans. Yet, contrary to the predictions of many pessimists after Kasparov’s 2½–3½ defeat in the second match against Deep Blue in 1997, the mysteries of chess remain unsolved, and the game is more popular than ever.
On this DVD a team of experts gets to the bottom of Kasparov’s play. In over 8 hours of video running time the authors Rogozenko, Marin, Reeh and Müller cast light on four important aspects of Kasparov’s play: opening, strategy, tactics and endgame.
