Re: Chess World Championship
They're humans, so they get tired and make the occasional mistake. I recently watched a documentary, Game Over, which was about the Kasparov-Deep Blue matches. It was an interesting case study in tilt.
In the match in which the computer first beats him, it makes a very un-computer-like move - Kasparov offers up a material sacrifice in exchange for positional advantages - a typical sucker play computers used to always fall for - and the computer actually turns it down.
Kasparov can't let this go, implies that the computer isn't playing on its own, and plays distracted for the rest of the competition and loses another game.
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