Commentary for black move 1:

MAURICE ASHLEY: Kasparov played the position as if it does appeal to him. He'd play the knight from f6 to h7, beginning fairly standard maneuvers in this kind of opening, and again, this is what the human being excels at. Kasparov as good as anyone in the world, will play blocked positions with finesse. He prefers the more rough-and-tumble position, the more open, but he is the world champion so his variety of skills -- a question I asked you earlier, Mike, what's the feeling on our part from the human perspective, why is it that we're so against the idea of learning from the computer? I mean the computer has so much to offer? And if it maps out new chess ground and some of the principles that we thought were good are now proven to be maybe not so accurate, shouldn't we be happy about that? /SHAOUPBTS we be learning from that? Why are we so against that if we want to see Kasparov prove that the old stuff is still the good stuff?

MIKE VALVO: Well, I have to kind of think about my own fears as a human, and I think one of the fears that I would have is I'd be playing against God. And, gee, could I survive in that kind of petition, where I'm playing against somebody who makes absolutely perfect moves. And this is the kind of fear that we also talked about yesterday when he said, "May in 68." Remember that? When he talked about an endgame position and the computer says judge I know this right until the very end of the game." How would you feel like if somebody said mate in 68 to you, that you had no chance, nothing you could do.

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