Commentary for white move 17:

JOE HOANE: As a generalization. But where you get real profit from doing program work is you add context. So every time you add a piece of context, an exception to that case, or, you know, another generalization of a whole class, inside the idea of moving pawns. It's just a big win. It plays tremendously better. 17 exf6

JOE HOANE: Because as soon as you do that, it plays better in many more positions. I think if Deep Blue wins, there's two reasons why it wins, against strong players. One is the concrete accuracy that's given to it by the speed of the /KHEFRPB and by the argument we use to discover forcing, important lines.

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