Commentary for black move 6:

MIKE VALVO: While they're getting him a mike, I'm going to mention that we're going to have question and answer sessions later on, and if you would like to ask a question, there will be people with mikes in both of the aisles. Are they here now? Can you raise your hands, who have the mikes? And try to get over to like one of the three seats on the end if you have a question, when we get into the question and answer periods. So they can pass you the mike, and we can answer the questions. We would like to answer all the questions today.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Lube orb, I'm deferring to your better judgment, you being older and wiser. Go ahead, what do you think is going on here? Kavalek: Well, I think a few moves back this position occurred in my game against Portisch in the seventies we played this game. He has conducted the same idea that Garry Kasparov is doing now, name am, he is trying to exchange light pieces, the knights, because he is going into some kind of squeezed position, and once you don't have so much space, it's a good idea to get some pieces exchanged. And obviously in this position it is to sort of negate the space advantage that white has. It's interesting that the computer played the move a4, because usually what we were trying to do to conduct an attack on the king-side in this position. Without that move, with things opened up, it's very difficult with the line on the a-file, it opens, then it will be quite difficult to make some progress for white.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: What happened in your game with Portisch? Kavalek:

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Well, I knew you would know something about this line, it being a classical line, and you have to know your classics.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Deep Blue has played Nxh4. Kasparov is away from the board at the moment. No doubt he's in the dressing room. He's quickly coming back to the board, and I think it's about two to one that he'll take the knight?

YASSER SEIRAWAN: I think it's a good, good chance.

MIKE VALVO: Quite a bit more than that, I'd say.

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