Commentary for black move 18:

MAURICE ASHLEY: Are people upset that Garry's playing like this?

GK MOVE: 18...Rde8

MIKE VALVO: They don't understand, this man who is the champion of the world, a point better than anybody else in recent events and here he is playing like the computer in a lot of ways, he's not taking the game to the computer, he's letting the computer come to him. But with f6 he seems to be taking it to the computer, doesn't he?

MAURICE ASHLEY: Well, after Deep Blue played the /PHAOUPBLG Rg1-g3 Kasparov has quickly responded with RdE-e8 and now he's certainly intending to take it to somebody with e6-e5, opening up the game, getting an open file for his rook, and he'll be attacking in the center of the board, while Deep Blue has to be concerned with a bing attack, Kasparov is breaking through in the middle, and this is typical, classical chess strategy by breaking in the middle of the board, you break the attack on the wings, because your pieces start to extend out in all different directions, and it will pick up whatever action is going on on two sides. So Kasparov has a very clear intention here. The move e6-e5 will come with a lot of force. What else did you discover up in the press room?

MIKE VALVO: Well, it's interesting. Shamkovich spoke to me.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Grandmaster Leonid Shamkovich.

MIKE VALVO: Yes, he's 75, but still can play a heck of a game. He said this game is not about calculating, it's about concepts. And he's right. We were looking at the concept of c6-c5 and no one looked at the concept of f6 at all. I think it's partly because humans don't think in those terms but Garry is I guess in the process of becoming more aware of how the machine thinks is also considering possibilities we normally wouldn't look at. This is not something I would even look at as a human player.

MAURICE ASHLEY: The weaknesses that Yasser mentioned, the double G pawns are so ugly that you wouldn't want to be bothered creating these kind of weaknesses, but now Kasparov has a clear intention, and that move e6-e5 does a lot for this position and will get some momentum going. It seems to be easy enough for Deep Blue to respond to it though with a move Re1, at least temporarily. It looks like a good preventative move and we might anticipate that occurring very shortly. Do we have any more questions from the audience?

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