RM> That might be stretching the point a bit !  I'm by no
RM> means an expert chess player, but my limited experience is
RM> that in addition to learning (and memorizing) the established 
RM> "lines", a chessmaster also develops a kind of "feel" for 
RM> positioning and game flow.  
    And a feel for the opponent's "style".
    Kasparov could get a feel for Deep Blue's "style" in his first few games 
that would (inevitably) advance his knowledge of it, because Deep Blue had no 
published games Kasparov could previously have studied.  
    Deep Blue could not get any feel for Kasparov's "style" that couldn't 
have been already programmed prior to the match.
    I never expected any result but a Kasparov win.
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