Commentary for white move 30:

ANGELINA BELASKAYA: Okay. I start to play chess when I was six years old, and my mother teach me how to play chess, just because my father was working on Ph.D., and my mother wanted to give him a chance to work. So I started to play, and I started -- it was very interesting for me. So she decides that I can go to chess school and learn how to play chess more. I went to the chess school, I start to play, I start to play in the tournaments. When I was 11, I became the highest rated chess player in my state.

DB MOVE: 30 Ka1

ANGELINA BELASKAYA: I was born in the district of Ukraine. Did we have a move?

MIKE VALVO: Ka1. I know, it's kind of hard to pick it out, but that's what he did.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Wow! Kb1-a1.

ANGELINA BELASKAYA: Just move away from the open line.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Wow, this looks like it's a cruiseing for a bruising. I don't like this move at all. I mean I would be very, very fearful of now Qf4-c4 and just, you know, a student-body shift over to the queen-side. I don't like this move one bit. I'll have to start not taking the computer's side.

MIKE VALVO: Fritz is pretty happy here.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Fritz is going to be unhappy, soon, too. (Audience laughter.)

ANGELINA BELASKAYA: If we play Qc4, can I play knight d4?

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Yes. And now we just have to find the right series of blows. I don't know, but the move Rf8-f4 is charming -- but the pawn is hanging. It's funny, because we were looking at a variation like this where I had this crazy Nb5+. It's funny. Maybe we'll see something similar to that as well. Interesting story. You were born, and...?

MIKE VALVO: "You were born."

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Yeah, let's start from the beginning.

ANGELINA BELASKAYA: I was born in the Odessa, Ukraine, and I grew up there. And I just started playing in the tournament, and when I became the highest rated player --

YASSER SEIRAWAN: How old were you when you became the highest rated player?

ANGELINA BELASKAYA: The highest rated player of my age. But Anatoly Karpov, who was at that time the world champion, he was coming to Odessa very often, so I was lucky, I got a picture of him in the newspaper, and I was invited by a very prestigious school of Grandmaster association, Botvinnik. And this was a school that I was there for five years, and after that, Garry Kasparov go to school and become the principal of the school.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Right, the leader, if you will.

ANGELINA BELASKAYA: But the problem was at this time when Kasparov came to the school as the principal, I was too old. I was 17 years old and I was too old for the school.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Were you immediately a chess talent at age six? Was chess easy for you? I think that was also a part of the lady's question.

ANGELINA BELASKAYA: No, I just -- like always when I start, I like to play till end, I never resign, I like to win. And this will just happen, I play and play and play, and I win as many games as I can, so finally I got some results. (Audience applause.)

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Mike, before we get into a telltale of your chess career, I will just say that Garry, this move Kb1-a1 has perplexed him. Obviously it wasn't his main or, if you will, prime variation. And he's been thinking some time, and again I'll refer back to his chess block for a -- chess clock for a moment. He had already been down to 18 minutes. It's now the 30th move. Ka1 just played by Deep Blue. That means that Garry has ten moves to make in the next --

AUDIENCE MEMBER: 14.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: He's got 14 minutes? Okay. I think he senses something here.

MIKE VALVO: There we have it, 14:08 on the clock, 35 minutes to Deep Blue. Sorry.

MIKE VALVO: I think he senses something here. He's taking extra time. He wants to make sure -- there must be something that he feels about the position that makes him want to invest this extra time. And I think the lure of that king all by itself over there is the lure.

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