Commentary for white move 14:

MAURICE ASHLEY: He has played d3-d4 attacking the knight.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: And the knight's got the choice now. It's either going to go back to g6, and this was Deep Blue's strategy, I believe, was to try to trying to control that d4 square. It can drop back to the g6 square or the d7 square. My suspicion is it will drop back to the g6 square. This is the whole point. Garry has all of the emotions s a very passionate person, is very passionate about the sport of chess. He's a very fiery personality, a temperament that has kept him in good stead in the world of chess. Clearly is computer has unnerved him. The brilliancy of game two, the greatest game I've ever seen a computer play full stop, shook his confidence, made him worry. This is a fellow who has never backed off of any challenge that has ever been presented to him in the world of chess, and he lost confidence. These last two games have brought some of his confidence back because he's seen some mistakes by the computer, he knows he hasn't had enough of an advantage to push the computer over if he had. But at the same time he knows that -- well, first of all, he knows that he's playing for $700,000 to the winner. And $400,000 to the loser.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Then again, he also has set himself up in a way by saying that he's playing for the honor of mankind. How much more pressure do you want to put on yourself? (Audience laughter.)

YASSER SEIRAWAN: We're here to save the world, yes, that's a tough one. So he knows that he cannot make any obvious blunder. He doesn't have the luxury of making a serious mistake, because the computer with its technical expertise will just clobber Garry. So he's getting more and more tense as the match is coming doup to the sudden death of who wins one of the next two games. So that's tough on him. Deep Blue just says, "Well, make sure my surge protector is on, and I'll be happy to analyze." Well, we have a version of the RS/6000 SP right on stage to our left, and as cool as it looks now, as cool as Deep Blue is. In the meantime Kasparov has got to be heating up a little bit, thinking about the match situation, thinking about not wanting to blunder a piece, wanting to play correct chess. Nevertheless this is the kind of situation he /R*EFLZ in. Kasparov has been in these situations hundreds of times, hundreds, this is why he plays chess, this is what he lives for, so we /SHAOUPBD undercut any of the situation just because Kasparov might be a little nervous. And right now he's been very studious, analyzing the position on the board. If you have any questions, I see a number of hands going up, just wait for the usher to go by.

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