Commentary for black move 20:

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Deep Blue may be only three or four years old.

MIKE VALVO: Let's pause for a second. I think we have Maurice Ashley coming back on the stage.

DB MOVE: 20...Kb8

MAURICE ASHLEY: We also want to that I Matt Thoennes for coming on, and Yasser Seirawan will take his break.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: We have a move.

MIKE VALVO: Another move?

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Kb8.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Yes, Deep Blue has played Kb8, /PHAO*UFB his king off the sensitive diagonal. I was up in the press room, and a lot of announcements going /OFPLT Grandmasters abounding. A couple of things I noticed. The first thing I went up to Grandmasters Ilya Gurevich and Patrick wolf and I said, "What's going on?" And they have some pretty strong opinions the about -- about the position. First of all they felt that Deep Blue was fine, that black was just okay, that the biggest problem was that they felt Garry Kasparov was a little inJudeitious in going too quick, pressing ahead in the center with c3 and e5. We can go back in this position, this moment, a move that we liked up here, this move c3 if you'll remember back to move 13, c3, and the bishop retreated to e7 and then this move, d4. They felt that after knight back to g6 and h4, this move e5 came quickly, opening up the center without Kasparov having castled his king. They felt that this equal /AOEUSDZ the position. Their feeling was that before this, Kasparov should have just waited, maybe could have castled in this position. That way his king would have been safe, and then later he could go to the c3 break. So they really feel very comfortable with black here. In fact, I was watching Ilya Gurevich, Grandmaster Ilya Gurevich, was a former world junior champion, I was hearing him throw out moves almost trying to say that black was better, that Deep Blue was better in this position that we're playing now. Patrick Wolff felt no, that was a bit too much and after a couple of moves they were whipping back at each other. I just kind of waited until they finished Grandmaster-speak. And after they were done "Yeah, looks equal." So that's they're feeling now that Deep Blue is not in any real trouble in this position, and if that's the case, Mike, as I go back to the position, Kasparov can't be too happy. This is game five with white. Tomorrow he has to face the gun of the white pieces that Deep Blue is going to have. So he can't be too pleased right now.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: No, and a strong possibility of this match being drawn, or he could even lose with the back pieces against Deep Blue. Deep Blue has beaten him with the white pieces a couple times now.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: What will humanity do in that case?

MIKE VALVO: Why, what is the problem? Based on that question, I'd like to have a mike given to Jonathan Schaffer up there on the right. I see him. Jonathan Schaffer is the programmer of the machine that actually became the world checker champion yon. The name of the machine is chinook, and he played a fantastic player, Marion tinsly to beat this guy and become the world champion. I just wondered, what happened in the world of checkers after chinook became world champion? Tell us about it.

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