Commentary for black move 49:

In this position, Re2 is also interesting. In this position Re2 -- this could get a little antsy. There are different possibilities. This possibility loses the game. Kc2 Rc1 Kb2 c3+ Ka2 --

DB MOVE: 49...Kb4

MAURICE ASHLEY: If we're correct, this is going to end in a draw. And this could be astonishing wizardry. And Kasparov with his face is showing clearly that he sees it. Deep Blue simply ignored the threat of the g-pawn. And Kasparov sees it now, and he's -- I mean it is clear to him that he did not consider this position. Imagine the decimation of his pawns on the left side. He didn't want -- who would think of that? I remember when I said to Roman taking on a2, and he said to Roman, the pawn is irrelevant, why are you taking that pawn? And truly I didn't see deep enough into the position to see the moves. I mean Deep Blue has shown that it had mating -- mating?

MIKE VALVO: Maybe that's why it's got the nickname "deep"!

MAURICE ASHLEY: Well, I tell you, that was truly astonishing what we've just seen and it just shows Deep Blue's true strength. We had this all worked out, went right into the variation. It didn't play so-called --

AUDIENCE MEMBER: RxN.

MAURICE ASHLEY: RxN? You don't want to play -- you don't want to take this now. Then you're asking to lose. Then you want to lose this game because after king takes that's a mate threat. You have to respond to it and then sudden this this rook comes back, stops your pawn from becoming a queen, and I see girls, new girls coming. Maybe this one, too. If you're not careful.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: What about Re3?

MIKE VALVO: What's happened here? The computer has a resource that we don't consider as humans. We think a pawn is going to queen, we've got to stop that pawn, we've got to be within a square, we just partition off that part of the board but the computer considers the whole board and says, "There's counterplay here," and this is introducing a new dimension to flay that we haven't considered before.

MAURICE ASHLEY: That was indeed astonishing and it's something that we couldn't do as humans. We are following standard patterns, try to use counterplay, trying to use restricted play, trying to just defend against the setup, because the unusual set up we saw on this side, on the left side is just not typical, it's not typical. A knight on b3, it's supposed to be on c3, we know the standard mate drawing procedure with a knight on c3 but not b3. And now we go back to that move, we know that Kasparov entombed his king. Look at that king. That's what's costing him. The king has nowhere to go. Maybe way back when he could have move his king to D one so that there was no mate, there was no problem with the mating idea. Now, with his king on b1 he's suffering for it his king cannot get out of this tomb, he's stuck and the one thing I think Kasparov has got to be really concerned about, he better not make the wrong drawing move, you know, thinking -- he won't, he'll queen the pawn and accept the draw, but the other thing he has to deal with is the disappointment of throwing away his last white. He goes into tomorrow with a draw, it'll be the difference between last year's match and this year's match. Kasparov won game five, he was fortunate enough to win game five after offering Deep Blue a draw.

GK MOVE: (Kasparov offers a draw, and it's accepted by the Deep Blue team.)

MAURICE ASHLEY: He's at a loss for words now. Deep Blue pulled this off. This was wizardry.

MIKE VALVO: As humans, we're limited by concepts. And this computer has widened the dimension of what's going on in these games, it's increased the possibility, just going to change the game. They're going to show new ways of playing these complex endgames.

MAURICE ASHLEY: That was stunning.

MIKE VALVO: This is phenomenal, this is fantastic.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Well, save your questions, folks. Kasparov will be down no doubt in about five or ten minutes. He usually comes down quite quickly. We do have some questions for audience members that we can field right now. On the match -- you should set the match situation, three draws in a ro -- and he cannot be happy about this situation now against a force that doesn't seem to get phased by anything at all. We do have a question from the audience.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: What do you do after RxN king takes and Ne3? Nd3.

MAURICE ASHLEY: In the variation after Kb4, you mean?

MIKE VALVO: We just went through this.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Ne2.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Ne2 I, -- I take the knight. All right, let's take a look at some moves just to confirm that Kasparov indeed had to follow this variation.

MIKE VALVO: It's no perfect --

MAURICE ASHLEY: Ne2 doesn't stop the perpet, that's the point.

MAURICE ASHLEY: What do you do about something like --

MIKE VALVO: Notice Garry is still sitting at the board.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Well, what have we seen here? Kasparov is totally in shock. He's finding it hard even to leave the room. Ir -- he can't believe it. I'm sure he doesn't want to come down here and have to talk to us.

MIKE VALVO: I think he wants the Deep Blue operator to play a few moves with him.

MAURICE ASHLEY: He might want to analyze the position a little bit, he's really stunned.

MAURICE ASHLEY: He's not just a little stunned, he seems like he's making a big point, and he's not happy at all. I don't know what could be bothering him. The result of the game we can't hear him, but he's very animated right now making points regarding something that happened. This is an angry Kasparov, and I really don't know why. We can only hope that we will hear the news and it will filter down to us. Oh, he ain't happy.

MIKE VALVO: Can anybody read Russian lips?

AUDIENCE MEMBER: It's not Russian, it's English.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Look at this. Kasparov very angry. To say the least, we talked about this match, the concept of being rough -- and look how many people are in the room now. It's rust a -- like a whole host of people coming over to the board . Something has occurred that we're not privy to as yet --

MIKE VALVO: It looks like the seeds of a protest, to me. Because Ken Thompson is there.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Ken Thompson is part of the protest committee.

MIKE VALVO: And Yuri Dokhoian. And perhaps is listening to her quite intently. She'll give the final word, and he's still looking at her, listeningtory logic, shrugging his shoulders, so Carol is the voice of authority in that room at the moment. Frederic Friedel is next to him, at our left. And so we are still trying to ascertain what is going on. A very upset Kasparov. This was such a fantastic chance for him, a third chance in a row. And he has blown the win against great tenacity by Deep Blue. We are hoping that he will arrive soon.

MIKE VALVO: Now C. J. Tan is there.

MAURICE ASHLEY: C. J. Tan the head of the Deep Blue team has shown up.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: What could he be protesting?

MAURICE ASHLEY: Let's get this mike here. We have a comment from an audience member.

MIKE VALVO: Do we know in fact that he's coming?

MAURICE ASHLEY: Now I don't know. I figured he would, but what's going on now, we're not sure.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Could it be some form of distraction, perhaps?

MAURICE ASHLEY: Your guess is as good as ours. We have absolutely no idea. It seemed pretty standard, it seemed like just a draw. Maybe he's protesting to how the operator behaved.

MIKE VALVO: A comment has been made that the operator went off stage --

MAURICE ASHLEY: On Deep Blue's move, the comment was made the operator left the room in Deep Blue's move, which is legal, absolutely legal, and maybe Kasparov felt that he was distracted by that, but what move did that occur on, did you see?

AUDIENCE MEMBER: About move number 39 or so.

MAURICE ASHLEY: 39. That's quite a ways back and may have distracted Kasparov, but that's a weak -- a weak claim.

MIKE VALVO: But Ken Thompson is there and he's only there for technical reasons, not for bathroom reasons.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: I agree with you, I don't think it's ground for --

MAURICE ASHLEY: We're not sure. I believe now we have left the room. If we may get a shot once more of the playing area, I think they've left. Kasparov has indeed left and we will anticipate his arriving here shortly, unless for some reason he's decide to do leave the building. Well, this match has it all! I mean everything you can imagine. Game one --

MIKE VALVO: It ain't over net tonight.

MAURICE ASHLEY: No, it's not. Game 6, you can have more hype and more craziness than this. Game one, Kasparov wins, after Deep Blue came up with wild tactical ideas. Kasparov managed to quell the fire and win the game. Game two, the computer plays like a human. Kasparov resigns in a drawn position. What's going on? In game three, another edge for Kasparov. Kasparov doesn't manage to win. Game four, again a big edge for Kasparov, at least a significant-looking edge, and somehow he just frittered away the position and managed to draw and came on stage looking very, very upset. His mind still it seemed on game two. And now game five, and again we thought that Kasparov was going to win, needing to win this game, because tomorrow the computer has white, and somehow, miraculously Deep Blue figures out a very -- certainly not a standard way of defending the position.

MIKE VALVO: We can't categorize it.

MAURICE ASHLEY: You can't categorize anything. He's trying to put his finger on Deep Blue and it just keeps wiggling and wiggling and he has no idea what's happening now and I must say he must be at least a very confused world champion, and a big game tomorrow where he has to defend the black pieces. We're hoping he will be on the stage shortly, we're checking to see. But this match, I don't remember as hot a match as this one in recent memory.

MIKE VALVO: And, you know, tomorrow's game, $300,000 was -- rides on that game.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Forget the $300,000. The fate of humanity is on the line! (Audience laughter.) At least in Garry Kasparov's head. I mean that's -- Whoo. Man, why did he set himself up like that? ! And he's got to play the black pieces tomorrow, too.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Garry Kasparov has gotten out of a lot of holes. There was a match he played against Karpov, a world championship match where he had to win the last game in order to keep his title, he had to win, and everybody thought he'd come out flying, sparks, shooting, all systems go, and he played it very cautiously and managed to grind Karpov down and win the match and retain his title. He's been in a lot of holes in his life. This is a deep, deep hole to be in, with the black pieces, against an opponent that is confusing, that is resourceful, that is tenacious, with his frame of mind as it is now, so many chances just slipping away at his fingertips. This stage is set for some kind of amaze be --

MIKE VALVO: Just keep talking. I'm going to find out if he's coming. If you have any questions, we still have ushers, we'll take questions. But be ready to ask Kasparov some questions. I'm not sure we will be able to, though, because the last time I asked him questions Kasparov was very upset, was out of it, you could tell and this may be the case still. We do have a question in the back.

MIKE VALVO: He's still on the 35th floor at the moment.

MAURICE ASHLEY: That's very surprising.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: We're very shocked and surprised at what's taken place right now of C on c7 /TWOEPBT c6 and b5 and got a -- pulled off a draw. My only question is can someone go to the area and find out what took place right there? We're all surprised. Garry is surprised. Is it possible someone can inform us what's just taken place in the game room?

MAURICE ASHLEY: I'm sorry, I don't quite understand.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Find out what happened.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: He was arguing --

MIKE VALVO: We're trying to find out right now.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: We were all shocked, we're all surprised. He's still there, he may want to look at the game, or -- can someone go there and find out exactly --

MIKE VALVO: Frederic is here, find out what was going on at the time.

FREDERICK FRIEDEL: Ask Garry.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Kasparov will be arriving shortly.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Frideric, the game was a draw, yes?

MIKE VALVO: And we have world champion Garry Kasparov! (Long, long standing ovation and wild cheering.)

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