Commentary for white move 8:

DB MOVE: Gaining a foothold in the center and facing off against white's e-pawn. To our left is the -- a demonstration board, a video screen, actually. Three video screens behind us. To our left we see one displaying the game position, and that will remain that way at all times. In the middle we have Fritz 4, a computer, analyzing with us so we can switch back and forth between this position and our analyses -- and our projections which we hope will somehow predict what's happening in the game, as Yaz has often predicted several of the moves Kasparov and Deep Blue have played. To our right is the video screen which will show a variety of things. Mainly, Garry Kasparov. He often gets up from the board, but sometimes --

DB MOVE: 8 e5

MAURICE ASHLEY: Sometimes the chessboard, sometimes the operator, sometimes the clock, a number of things. And Deep Blue has responded to d7-d5 very quickly with Bg5. Now, Fritz 4 often helps us by giving us its evaluation of the current position. We find that Fritz 4 is a little computer biased and I guess we can expect that from Fritz 4. It's often that way, but its evaluations do help us to somehow understand the position a bit, and there are two graphs on Fritz 4 if you look at the middle screen you can see the red graph here splaying that it feels white has an advantage and if it ever dropped into the green area that means that it thinks that black has an advantage. It also gives a decimal evaluation of the position and any time this evaluation goes up .4 or .5 tends to mean that that side has a serious, serious advantage. So at the moment, Fritz 4 feels the position is relatively even. Before with white it had given better advantages than it had before. We will take taking questions from our in-house audience because we want you to participate and contribute. The audience we find is often right in their evaluations of what's going on and their predictions of what will happen in the game so we will be doing the Yasser poll because Yaz loves polls. We'll be doing that a little later on also. Now, Yaz, before Kasparov makes his next move he has been thinking a little bit about the position and I know you've been thinking about the position, how do you feel -- how would you feel if you had white or black in this position?

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