Kasparov later wrote a book about the event, and states in the book that he expected to win the game relatively easily. In particular, he had a number of sig

Kasparov later wrote a book about the event, and states in the book that he expected to win the game relatively easily. In particular, he had a number of significant advantages that make the game quite different from an ordinary online game, and which make the world team's performance more impressive: (1) he could see the world team "thinking", as they discussed in public their possible options, an advantage he exploited extensively; and (2) he expected that the world team would be unable to form a coherent strategy, but rather would be pulled in multiple directions.