Commentary for black move 38:

FREDERICK FRIEDOL: Yes, we considered briefly not telling Garry, but then we realized the first taxi driver is going to say it -- (Audience laughter.) So that option was out. And then the two options were do we tell him before lunch or do we spoil his lunch. And we decided to tell him before lunch and we were walking down Fifth Avenue to an Italian restaurant, and Yuri, as he -- because he speaks Russian went up to Garry and said, "Listen, kid," and explained it to him, and Garry stopped dead in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and he stood there in the middle of the street (hands on head), not crossing the street, on the pavement. Then he didn't say anything. Yuri whispered to him, and we went into the restaurant, we sat down, and for five minutes he just stared at the corners of the restaurant, click, click, click -- click, click, click working on variations. Then he looked up and nodded and said, "So simple, just, you know, Re8, h4, h5, so simple, how could it be possible." And he told me. He was so impressed by the computer, especially this one move, Be4, was so awesome. He couldn't believe how a computer would play this.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: And not the move Qb6, which wins material 38...Kg8.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Kh8-g8 has been played. The program, Deep Blue, has decide to do bring the king toward the center, although if it goes to f8 it's kind of stuck, can't go any further, but for some reason it decided that the king can be improved in this position. But this move Be4, which was strongly criticized, Frederic, by many, Qb6 looked like you were cashing in.

FREDERICK FRIEDOL: What?

MAURICE ASHLEY: Qb6 in the position looks like the game is over, looks like Garry almost would resign after such a move.

MAURICE ASHLEY: -- from it from it we sat together and I asked them which Grandmaster would play Qb6 instantaneously. And Garry said, "I would, immediately I'd just play it." Dakyan said he would. Garry said that Anand would, Karpov would, definitely, and other players. Some players like you wouldn't.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Physically I'd have a hard time restraining myself, Qb6, yes.

FREDERICK FRIEDOL: It's a very positional move, that's the scary part about it and we don't know what was going to happen because the computer wasn't supposed to be able to play positional chess, tactically better than Kasparov, but positionally it's supposed to be miserable, but what happened last game.

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