Commentary for black move 19:

MAURICE ASHLEY: You know, the other thing that could happen when you're looking for original moves is you waste a lot of time doing it, and right now Kasparov has spent a lot of time getting to this 19th move, and he could easily fall behind on the clock, in such a way that he's making his last few moves very, very quickly and the possibility of blunders start to keep in -- creep in. So we're going to have to look for that, in situations that you talk about, there are patterns where humans can say, "Oh, yeah, I know exactly what to do in this position. Normally what you do is this, this, this, this, this. And you play four or five moves in quick succession." But when you start creating new stuff and you have an unusual pawn structure you've never seen before like Garry Kasparov has right here and he's trying to start to make up the new rules for this setting, then he starts spending more and more and -- time. If you look at Kasparov's clock, he has 45 minutes on his clock --

GK MOVE: 19...Rhf8

MAURICE ASHLEY: Kasparov now has 45 minutes left on the clock. Now, at this point he should be making, if we take the three-minute-per-move average, he should be making his 25th move, but he's only up to his 19th move. That means he's six moves behind. He better start coming up with moves a bit more quickly and soon. If this position gets wild and complicated, he's going to have to spend more time, and he could easily blunder, even if he had a good position and just suddenly lose the game.

MIKE VALVO: True. That's another advantage of a closed position. They tend to be so slow moving that he can afford to get behind on the clock and catch up because there's not a lot of tactics he has to calculate. He can make a few bye moves or pass moves, and it won't hurt him so much. But in tactical positions he can't do that.

MAURICE ASHLEY: We have a question over here.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: I think --

MAURICE ASHLEY: What's your name, by the way? One of our youngsters again from Longfellow high school.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Bellevue Gene Dalton, Jr. I think Kasparov has to think so much because he keeps on walking away from the game and not looking at what the other person is doing. (Audience laughter.) While he's gone. He's just like concentrating about the game when he's gone, he's just like "Oh, God, am I going to win or lose?" What do you think about that?

MAURICE ASHLEY: Good point the youngsters made. Why is Garry getting up so much, Mike?

MIKE VALVO: I don't know. I think he's nervous. He's walking around and he's pacing, and he's concerned. This is not a normal kind of position for him. It's not normal for anyone. it golt to be uncomfortable.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Well, I can speak to this as a chess player myself. It is sometimes torture sitting at a chessboard waiting for the next move. You're nervous, your stomach is doing flip-flops, you know, you're thinking "Okay, when is this guy going to move," and five minutes goes by and ten minutes and now it's been 15 minutes and you just want to have something to do so one thing you do is kind of get up, stretch your legs, stretch your arms a little bit, stretch your back, because sitting down at a chessboard, sitting down my where for three, four, five hours, start hurting your butt a little bit, your back, it's not easy. So you walk around a little bit, and be sure -- Eugene, was it?

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Bellevue.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Balfie?

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