Commentary for black move 11:

MAURICE ASHLEY: Why don't you just tell us the moves of the rest of the game. (Audience laughter.) Since g2-g4 has been played --

GK MOVE: 11...Bg6

MAURICE ASHLEY: And the if the two players in that room are up to speed, they'll castle shortly, according to your suggestion.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: A lucky guess, grandmama.

YASSER SEIRAWAN:

MAURICE ASHLEY: You've got to be good to get that one.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: The idea is this position is very flexible. White has a number of things that he can try to achieve. He can try to bring the pawn from f2 to f4. Obviously he would have to move the knight to do that. Sometimes he can attack on the king-side with h4 and h5. Black, for his part, has the pawn levers f7-f6, c6-c5, and in some cases simply, after exchanging the bishops on d3, he can leave the pawn on c6 and reroute this knight on a6 to either b4 or Na6-c7. So this is the kind of -- it's a closed position that is actually what Garry was trying to achieve, where the strategic decisions aren't so clear. The concepts can evolve, can shift. And the problem in game two, from Garry's perspective, is he gave the computer a very, very clear plan, and the computer played brilliantly. I mean excomputed wonderfully. And so I think that Garry is satisfied even though he has a disadvantage, he's satisfied with his disadvantage.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Have you seen this kind of setup in the computer matches over the years, Mike? What has been the result, in your vast experience, over 15 years experience watching computers play chess, how do they handle these kinds of situations?

MIKE VALVO: I have seen this idea, I'll bring the bishop out and achieving this kind of pawn structure a couple of times and I must say, the computer that played the black side was wildly successful in doing this.

MAURICE ASHLEY: The computer that played the black side?

MIKE VALVO: Yes, was quite successful. The white computer had no idea what to do and the black computer apparently had been prepared to do this kind of thing and did it quite well. I don't think we're going to have the same kind of situation here. Deep Blue is looking quite a bit deeper so it's not going to necessarily be the same kind of result, but it seems a good idea at the time. But I was wondering myself as Yasser was talking, how would Garry annotate this game? What would he think of the white position if he were white? He's be giving it a big plus over minus sign, something like that. He might even say, "How ridiculous for black to play this way," wouldn't he?

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