Commentary for black move 36: And Garry now is looking none-too-happy as his analysis is starting to bear up some of the advantages in white's position. But instead, and I've seen this time and time again, and you guys as experienced Grandmasters know, that when you kill counter play, when you have a position where you can just kill all counter play and keep all your advantages, you go for it. The guy has no chance to win, he's just suffering there, biting his nails, looking like Garry is now --

PATRICK WOLFF: Biting his knuckles.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Biting his knuckles like Garry is now, none too happy, shaking his head, burying his head in his hands.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Crying.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Crying? We've got a vicious --

PATRICK WOLFF: Garry is very expressive but Garry is also a phenomenal fighter. He will show his emotion, but he will not let it control him. So don't ever count him out.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Right. The point I was trying to make is, one of the things when I was developing somewhat of a chess player, is to appreciate sort of the positional ideas as Garry is still making all these faces. He's not stopping.

PATRICK WOLFF: What's happened?

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Bc2-e4.

MAURICE ASHLEY: I mean this move is the point I'm trying to make. Every move by the computer just when you think it's going to go for it and kill, it kills the counter play, no chances. I'm playing with -- again, maybe they gave Karpov a call in Moscow. "Tell us what to do? How do we fight this animal?" And then you're looking at it, every move it makes it kills counter play. It doesn't want to go four Qb6 because maybe there's a funky sacrifice. You know, so let me exchange on b5. It's making all these moves that are so positional in nature that are so instructive. I get a feeling I'm learning from watching the computer play these moves as it just mats out all counter play for Garry and just sort of makes him suffer.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: I agree that what you're saying is there's been some very nicely refined moves but I would not have played the last move, Be4. I would have jumped right into the breach. I would have played Qb6, that was a very compelling move.

PATRICK WOLFF: Although I'm sure you would agree,

YASSER, this is a big advantage for white. Maybe not as big as after Qb6.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: No, white has held an advantage very nicely since the opening, and he's improved his advantage. There's no question Deep Blue has played the position very well, given that he had the opportunity from the opening; but, again, the move Qb6 -- the move Be4 is not needed. That's the kind of a move that you can play later. And I really like the move Qb6. Now, for example, Garry, to avoid the threat of Qb6, has to do something. And I'm thinking that he's going to play Ra8 X a2. First of all, doing his best to neutralize this battery, this very powerful battery by white on the a-file. If Rxa2, Rxa2.

PATRICK WOLFF: But of course white will not recapture with the rook because that would allow black possibly to fight the a-file.

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