Game 1, black
25...Be7
Commentary for black move 25:
Mr. ASHLEY: Yeah, I don't think we'll see this score sheet.
Nobody will grab a piece of that score sheet. It's taking him
so long, maybe he's just enjoying the moment, savoring it
before he plays f7. Because this was indeed a tremendous fight
for Kasparov, and just at the moment we thought that he might
be dead and this thing was going to blow him off the board and
he played with such finesse, such an understanding of the
computer's weaknesses, but on a higher level this time, beyond
just that low level, keep the position blocked, even on a
higher level, the transformation of material for advantage, for
play when it didn't look like it was going to happen. It was
tremendous on his part.
Mr. SEIRAWAN: Well, that particular moment after f5, that was
really the telling moment, and I'm sure we're going to see a
great deal of analysis from computers and from humans because I
really think that that move, Bxf4 was the crucial one. And the
failure of Deep Blue to play that particular move may have cost
it the game. It may turn out that Bxf4 would not have saved
it, it may have seen some 12-move checkmate, but that would
have been the move that I would have been most afraid of having
to face. And after that, Garry handled the game /PHAGS any of
sently. I mean what could any of us do? It was well done.
Mr. ASHLEY: It was indeed beautiful. And we're counting the
computer out already, but, you know, it does feel like you're
up 20 points at the end of the fourth quarter or you're up four
/T*DZ. And Fritz agrees.
Mr. SEIRAWAN: Yes.
Mr. ASHLEY: As much as Fritz likes Deep Blue, you know, it will
turn away real quick. It understands two passed pawns on the
sixth.
Mr. SEIRAWAN: And it's looking at some great depth, too, that is
to say Fritz is seeing the next five and a half moves all the
way up to the next 16 moves.
Mr. ASHLEY: It's shocking in fact that Kasparov is taking as
long as he is on this move, because it's so clear that f7 --
Mr. SEIRAWAN: There's not much in it.
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