Commentary for black move 19:

MATT THOENNES: Technically it's possible. The RS/6000 SP scales up to very large systems. The question is, what kind of strength do you want to play each person? Because certainly to play a chess player the class of Garry Kasparov takes a very large machine, takes 32 nodes that we're using here. You know, I think that that's one of the places machines like this will go, is connecting them into the Internet to allow them to play people and I think there can be a tremendous education gained upon that --

DB MOVE: 19...Rhe8

MATT THOENNES: Makes a nice sparing partner. The patient doesn't get upset, doesn't get tired.

MIKE VALVO: I was actually thinking of something like that, but with much more like playing three Grandmasters simultaneous. Playing a hundred million simultaneously was a little bit beyond what I was thinking about.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: A hundred thousand, yeah. Just to be clear, so what you're saying is that if Deep Blue was to play, let's say a hundred people, that its energy would be --

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