Commentary for black move 38:

PATRICK WOLFF: You know, one interesting thing I would like to point out is that Kasparov has altered his style to play against the computer. But he's paid a price. He's not playing the kind of chess that comes naturally to him. So even though Garry remains the best chess player in the world, probably the best chess player who's ever lived, he's not really in his element, because he's trying to hard to take the computer out of its element. And I think what we're seeing here is Garry is struggling a bit to find some natural moves to play. I mean he's defending well, I have no doubt that he will continue to defend well, but how could the world champion find himself in such a difficult position? Well, he's been out played. Maybe partly because this kind of game really doesn't come natural to him.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Okay, but that's a very important point. He's been out played. But we -- I gave Garry kudos because of his choice. He got the type of position that we feel is the kind of game he wants to play, maneuvering -- a maneuvering, closed game. And he got out maneuvered and out-closed.

PATRICK WOLFF: Absolutely right.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Do we have some questions from our audience? The gentleman in blue. We'll wait for the mike to get passed.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: This is a nontechnical subject that you might want to comment on. Except for the pawn on c4 and, while it was still there, Garry's rook on a2, he's put his pieces down just about as precisely as Fritz does on the screen. And the Deep Blue team has been careful, but they're not, you know, positioned to the fraction of the millimeter on the board. Does that matter at all? I mean when he first sat down --

MAURICE ASHLEY: He has great eyes.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: -- adjusted the -- you know, went down the line and adjusted all those pawns. Does that make a difference in competitive play, especially when it's person against person?

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Well, I'll address that question. I was always amazed when I broke into the arena and was playing against professional players how concerned they were about how they moved the pieces. They were quite accurate in placing the pieces directly on the squares, and furthermore, it just seemed like they had this wonderful gift of getting the pieces there very quickly and putting them right on the squares. And I came -- I started developing all these wonderful theories that a really good player, you can -- he can never disguise himself, like if you go down to New York's times square and see some of the chess players and they're hustling, you can know a good player, how they put the pieces on the squares. And I was creating this theory how a really good player is like this precise person, this mastery of the chess piece, if you will. And then I played vas eelly Smyslov, who is a former world champion, and at one time the guy was just "god," he just never lost.

MAURICE ASHLEY: A surprising development, Qa7, offering the exchange of queens, which to my eyes is not as much as Deep Blue could have hoped for in this position, although maybe making some progress.

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