Commentary for white move 23:

ROMAN DZINDZIHASHVILI: Deep Blue does move for some -- trying to mess things up.

MIKE VALVO: Well, he's attacking knight, and he's attacking the pawn. 23 Bd2

ROMAN DZINDZIHASHVILI: Bd2 was played.

MIKE VALVO: Is that pawn available?

ROMAN DZINDZIHASHVILI: I don't think so. It is available, but I don't think so. After Qxa3 and Rb7 it looks very black for black now. (Audience laughter.)

MIKE VALVO: Very black for black?

ROMAN DZINDZIHASHVILI: Yeah. I don't think this pawn is the target here.

MIKE VALVO: What does Fritz think? Fritz thinks that black is down almost a pawn. AUDIENCE MEMBER: Ahead. AUDIENCE MEMBER: Fritz thinks it's great for Fritz.

MIKE VALVO: What would you do with this position for black, if you had it?

ROMAN DZINDZIHASHVILI: If I had it, what would I think, or what would I do? (Audience laughter.)

MIKE VALVO: What would you do.

ROMAN DZINDZIHASHVILI: I'm not allowed to say what I think, so probably Rb8.

MIKE VALVO: Rb8?

ROMAN DZINDZIHASHVILI: Yeah.

MIKE VALVO: Well, Roman you're a well-known expert at beating computers.

ROMAN DZINDZIHASHVILI: Yeah. By the way, the position that -- pawn structure that was created against Deep Blue in this game, Yasser said it was played in Aegon tournament by Koshasvili against MChess Pro. But I played this against very many programs better than MChess Pro, and they had problems also with this pawn structure. But later on, when I spoke to the programmers, what kind of problems computers had, very next game, playing exact same position I had much more difficulties. So I don't think this problem, if there is a problem for computer to play this position, I don't think it's going to remain for much longer.

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