Commentary for white move 37:

MAURICE ASHLEY: I should mention I teach at the same school Susan does, and have been developing young champions also. 36 h4

MAURICE ASHLEY: A moment ago we spoke about pawn breaks or the lack thereof for Kasparov and he decided that he does have a pawn break and he's played the move h2-h4 in response to Deep Blue's Bh7-g6 and it seems that Kasparov is sacrificing another pawn maybe temporarily but he seems very confident in this position. He's getting up, walking around.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Wow. As you pointed out, Maurice, and you were very correct, the move f5-f6 limited the bishop on d8. The bishop on d8 was no longer influencing the h4 square, so that after the move f6 this break becomes possible. Let's just imagine the move g5xh4 by Deep Blue. It's /KPAOEBL /* conceivable that there will be Kh3-h4, or Rh1. Then h5 Rxh4 and --

MAURICE ASHLEY: Now both black bishops are busy defending wing pawns and not really saying very much.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: At the same time, how do you do anything to get after this pawn? You can try to drop your bishop back, but that's going to be a long way away, and this rook on b8 will come into the game. You can bring this rook around to attack that pawn. Well, that will take some time. If the knight tries to come over here to grab the h5 pawn, you've got to keep an eye on the f6 pawn, so I don't see what Garry can do to break Deep Blue's defenses. Deep Blue for its part can always bring his king comfortably up to the h6 square.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Okay, we have a guest who's been waiting on stage. We have directly from Germany, Frederic Friedel.

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