I think its a little bit of an overstatement to say that Deep Blue was programmed to beat Kasparov. The difficulty is that Kasparov has the ability to play using very different styles. In his first match with Karpov, he got off to a disaster start using an aggressive style. He then changed styles drastically and drove Karpov to distraction. Kind of like the way Alekhine beat Capablanca.
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I think its a little bit of an overstatement to say that Deep Blue was programmed to beat Kasparov. The difficulty is that Kasparov has the ability to play using very different styles. In his first match with Karpov, he got off to a disaster start using an aggressive style. He then changed styles drastically and drove Karpov to distraction. Kind of like the way Alekhine beat Capablanca.