Game 6, black
10...Kd8
Commentary for black move 10:
GK MOVE: ...fxe6
DB MOVE: Bg6+.
GK MOVE: ...Kd8
MAURICE ASHLEY: Kasparov is shaking his head as if something
disastrous has happened, his king being chased around the
board. Is it possible that Kasparov has played incorrect
theoretically?
YASSER SEIRAWAN: Yes, he has. He blunered. What he did is he
transposed moves. What I mean by that is this position is
quite well known, and you had witnessed me playing the move
Bf8-d6. The idea being that after Bd6, it's standard for white
to then play Qe2, and then after h6, this sacrifice Nxe6
doesn't work because black has the move Kf8 later.
MAURICE ASHLEY: You mean after Nxe6?
YASSER SEIRAWAN: Capturing the knight, there's the check, the
king can go to f8.
But playing h6 one move earlier, the sacrifice that we've now
seen, h6, is possible. As far as I recall, there was a famous
game between Granda Zuniga, Grandmaster from Peru, vs. our
very
own Patrick Wolff. And it was a very difficult game for black
to play and it became recognized that the move h6 was wrong.
And Gary, assist -- Garry, as you saw his reactions, the moment
that Deep Blue played Nxe6 so very quickly and reached the
position they now have on the board, he was in just terror,
distress. Because he's -- he recognizes that he's fallen for a
well-known opening trap.
MAURICE ASHLEY: Is this over? Is it that simple?
MIKE VALVO: No.
MAURICE ASHLEY: I mean he's up a piece for a pawn.
YASSER SEIRAWAN: Right.
MAURICE ASHLEY: His king is in a sorry state right now on the d8
square, to be sure. Is it just over?
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