He later said he was again riled by a move the computer made that was so surprising, so un-machine-like, that he was sure the IBM team had cheated. Kasparov, according to NPR, was visibly perturbed - sighing and rubbing his face - before he abruptly stood and walked away, forfeiting the match. Although he easily won the first game, Deep Blue dominated the second. Once again, the psychological toll of facing off against an inscrutable opponent played a key role. The next year, he played against a new and improved Deep Blue and lost the match.
So although I think I did see some signs of intelligence, it’s a weird kind, an inefficient, inflexible kind that makes me think I have a few years left.” He boasted, “In the end, that may have been my biggest advantage: I could figure out its priorities and adjust my play. Knowing that it was still basically a calculating machine gave Kasparov his edge back. Later, he discovered the truth: Deep Blue’s calculation speed was so advanced that, unlike other computers Kasparov had battled before, this one could see the material advantage of losing a pawn even if the advantage came many moves later. I could feel - I could smell - a new kind of intelligence across the table.” “I had played a lot of computers but had never experienced anything like this. “It was a wonderful and extremely human move,” Kasparov noted, and this apparent humanness threw him for a loop. He later explained, in an essay for TIME, that Deep Blue flummoxed him in that first game by making a move with no immediate material advantage nudging a pawn into a position where it could be easily captured. But after rallying to beat Deep Blue, winning three matches and drawing two after his initial loss, Kasparov wasn’t ready to give up on the human race - or himself.