Commentary for white move 9:

Mr. VALVO: The computer was thinking on Garry's time, and guessed what Garry's move was going to be, so that by the time Garry played the move it had already decided what it was going to do. Now, actually the truth is a combination of the two. We don't know what it was exactly. But Garry played a move which caused it to go back into book and went right for it. But on the other hand it could have guessed that Garry was going to do that move, too. I think that Garry just simply made a move that brought it back into book and it said, "Great, I'm back in my known territory, that's what I'm going to do."

Mr. SEIRAWAN: That's actually one of the things that happens a lot, especially amongst humans versus computer games, the human tries to be very clever in thought by not committing themselves to a particular opening, and then, like it or not, they end up falling into a known position and then the computer says, "Whew, okay, I survived these early moves and we have another move."

Mr. ASHLEY: We do indeed have another move, and the computer has played h6. Oh, after e2-e3 by Kasparov, the computer has played h7-h6, which is a cagey little move, not really doing anything too much.

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