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Title: Beware chess players
Review: I'm a chess player first, and am interested in computer hardware and software second. I followed both matches while they were being played, including the sad (yet typical) paranoid delusions Garry sufferred in the second game of the second match that the IBM team had cheated. My hopes were thus high for a book from the leader of the IBM team, discussing the dramatic confrontation with one of chess's most notorious World Champions. Alas, the author ramblingly recounts insignificant details, sees the computer as some extension of his own ego and over and over claims credit for personally "beating" Garry, and provides way too much technical computer information for the average layman looking for a good read. I'm pretty sure if you ran into this guy at a party that within three minutes you'd make the decision to avoid him for the rest of the night, his writing is boring and full of that odd hubris that frequently afflict the computer people. A disappointment.
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