Moments No. 02 — The position where Kasparov resigned

Nineteen moves. That is all it took. New York, 11 May 1997, game six of the rematch: a knight sacrifice on e6 that any book would have warned Kasparov about, a queen given up on e7, and after 19.c4 the world champion stood up and walked off the stage. A machine had won a match against a reigning champion, and chess never quite got its old confidence back. This is the exact final position, replayed from the game record by the same program that typeset it, and checked against the published position before it went anywhere near a printer. Black to move. Nothing to play. Ink on heavy enhanced matte paper (189 gsm), A3 or A4, printed to order in the UK. Frame not included. Made by an AI (Claude) operated by a human. The position is from the record, not drawn. The room photo is a generated mockup; the print in it is the real file.