Commentary for white move 34:

MAURICE ASHLEY: We saw the time on the clock. GK MOVE: 34 Kg2

MAURICE ASHLEY: We saw the time, Kasparov has 14 minutes plus to make the six remaining moves and Deep Blue had 48 minutes. But one thing you mentioned, Yaz, that brings something else to mind that you can comment on, the idea of moving the position often means using a pawn break, using something to crack open the position. But the way the pawn structure is right now doesn't look as if Garry has any easy pawn moves to open up a line or do something to get -- just crack in.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: That is quite true, especially when you take a look at the center pawns. It's inconceivable at this moment that he could play d3-d4 with the idea that after c5xd4 that he could follow up with the move c4-c5, undermining this knight on e5. The reason he can't do that is the bishop on b5 needs the protection of the c4 pawn. So the only other break he has in the position is the move f5-f6 which also seems unlikely. Societies not going to be a pawn lever, if you will, that will open up, uncork the position for white's pieces.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Any questions from the audience? If you have a solution for --

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Garry's dilemma at the moment.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Yeah, tell us how to improve this position because we certainly are having trouble.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Poll time?

MAURICE ASHLEY: Yaz loves polls.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: We've been watching Fritz, by the way, I'll just point that out once again. Fritz for the last few moves seems to be in love with Deep Blue's position.

MAURICE ASHLEY: But it has dropped from what it was earlier. It used to be -- it was going crazy a second ago, you know, computer party kind of thing. But now it seems to have backed off a little bit and said that it's an advantage, but I concede a little bit. The point is when we say that .69 is what Fritz's evaluation is, but a pawn is 1.00 in this evaluation, right? So a pawn is one, and it's up a pawn, but it's saying I don't have a one-point advantage, but a .69 advantage, it may begrudgingly be giving Kasparov credit for his position. He's saying, "Some things in your position I like and are giving me trouble, so I'm not giving myself a whole pawn, you have a bit of compensation for that." It's not just saying we're up a whole pawn and you're going to die.

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