Commentary for white move 38:

MAURICE ASHLEY: We do have a move, the g-pawn takes the h-pawn, and we are seeing how Kasparov might recapture the pawn with either Kh3 or Rh1.

FREDERICK FRIEDOL: This game is really very, very dangerous.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Did you mean that chess is very dangerous or -- GK MOVE: 38 Kh3

FREDERICK FRIEDOL: This game. It's too violent, it's too...

MAURICE ASHLEY: They say that there's no tension in the chess game, and take it from Frederic I'm sure there are better ways to treat your heart.

FREDERICK FRIEDOL: You shouldn't just root for one player the way I am. That's unhealthy.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Kh3 has been played by Kasparov, he's avoided trying to double rooks and instead has brought his king up to the h3 square and will recapture the pawn shortly. There seems to be no way black can prevent that.

FREDERICK FRIEDOL: Okay, I'll try to get the story out quickly. Two o'clock in the morning we found the move h5. Fritz /STHOED to me, this program here, and I was too tired, I couldn't find work -- work it out completely, so next morning I extracted Yuri Dakyan, that's Garry's GM second, out of his room and said Yuri, take a look at this. "I think it was a draw." He said, "No, impossible." He came into my room, sat down with the computer and played it against Fritz and tried and tried and tried, and Fritz had found this move h5. It takes a few minutes and says -- fooling around with other variations and it says we play h5.

MAURICE ASHLEY: This is in the Qe3 line we've been talking about.

FREDERICK FRIEDOL: And the thing which Garry didn't see was Re8, which was a difficult move to see, did you see it?

YASSER SEIRAWAN: No, absolutely not.

FREDERICK FRIEDOL: 20 Grandmasters didn't see it. And then we discovered it's a draw and then came the question how do we tell Garry about it.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Did you consider not telling Garry?

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