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Deep Blue game 6: May 11 @ 3:00PM EDT | 19:00PM GMT        kasparov 2.5 deep blue 3.5


White: Deep Blue
Black: Kasparov
1. e4
c6
2. d4
d5
3. Nc3
dxe4
4. Nxe4
Nd7
5. Ng5
Ngf6
6. Bd3
e6
7. N1f3
h6
8. Nxe6
Qe7
9. O-O
fxe6
10. Bg6+
Kd8
11. Bf4
b5
12. a4
Bb7
13. Re1
Nd5
14. Bg3
Kc8
15. axb5
cxb5
16. Qd3
Bc6
17. Bf5
exf5
18. Rxe7
Bxe7
19. c4
Resign!



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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