Commentary for black move 33:

MAURICE ASHLEY: What's interesting to me is, I was wondering how white could increase the pressure. The knight on g3 wasn't doing anything, and the bishop at c2 blocked by its own pawns. predictable. Now he's shaking his head. Very, very predictable.

PATRICK WOLFF: This is a Maaloxmoment. (Audience laughter.)

MIKE VALVO: Can we put you out on a limb, Patrick, and ask you if I think white is winning?

PATRICK WOLFF: You can push me out on a limb. Do you expect me to jump off?

MIKE VALVO: Comment on it.

PATRICK WOLFF: I won't say whether or not white is winning but there's no question white has a very good position, no question that white has a lot of pressure.

MIKE VALVO: If you had white would you expect to win this position?

MAURICE ASHLEY: This guy should be a politician.

PATRICK WOLFF: Am I promising lower taxes and better services? Am I doing something... I don't know. Well, I like this idea of Bxd6 and Qb6. I'm curious whether we can find another idea because it's always good to try to find as many ideas as possible in a position. For example, what about this idea, pawn takes pawn. Let's just try this. Pawn takes pawn. Ra6. Yes, I know, I suggested it before, but this seems to me also to put pretty strong pressure on black's position. It's a possibility.

MAURICE ASHLEY: I don't know about you, but I'm really sort of stunned by how well Deep Blue --

MIKE VALVO: Yes.

MAURICE ASHLEY: -- has played. It has played, if I may use the word, so globally. It went -- first it started in the middle of the board, then the position blocked up, so it decided "Okay, I gotta go to the flank," so it went to the left flank. While Kasparov was busy putting out brush fires in the left flank, it said let me flay f4 and play on that side, then it repositioned some nice moves, rook moves on the left side, and then it broke in the center again, that move you didn't like, that move fxe5 move, that move you thought was a little early, a little premature accident then it started switching sides, bishop on the other side, then it played Nf5. This great crossover dribble, left, right, left, right.

PATRICK WOLFF: Well, the computer is the most unprejudiced chess opponent in the world. The computer does not have preconceptions. It may have misconceptions. It may not have conceptions. But it doesn't have any preconceptions. It will play whatever move it thinks is best, and that's one of the things that makes it so dangerous an opponent. And that's exactly the kind of thing that,

MAURICE, you've been saying. It allows it to switch back and forth, from side to side, back and forth, without any come punks about, you know, getting too absorbed in one side of the game other another.

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