Commentary for black move 7:

MIKE VALVO: Those that have played computers a long time and are convinced that computers are very strong, yes, they sort of cower, and they just can't play anymore and become frozen. Those who are just playing computers for the first time they feel really good like Garry did in the first game last year, let it all hang out. DB MOVE: 7...Be6.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Well, now, Deep Blue has played a move, Bc8-e6 and this is looking very much like a standard opening line, Yaz. You can better speak to these nuances than we can, because this is your bread and butter stuff.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Well, indeed it is. I have long -- like I said earlier, it's the English opening. And by the way I just wanted to refer back to a second. You were talking about the illegal moves. One of the wonderful things I had witnessed, I had gone to a hospital, children's orthopedic hospital in Seattle, and there was a cancer ward with the young children and they were playing chess and they were very excited to see me, and I came to the children and was playing chess with them, and I noticed that both children who were playing with each other had checkmated one another simultaneously. And they were continuing to play. (Laughter.) I just left them alone and they were as happy as could be. Yes, so humans also need to make progress. Actually, the opening has gone very well for Garry. I can speak authoritatively in this case because again, this is one of my openings as white, and the point is, is this bishop on e7 is completely misplaced. In this particular opening, if you just take a look at the bishop for a moment, it is very passive, it is blocked by the knight on f6, it is blocked by the pawn on d6. This bishop would really prefer to be fianchettoed on the g7 square, and in that case we would have a very standard opening position from the English. Again, the move a2-a3 in this case would not be a wasted temple because white sooner or later will be using the move b2-b4. So I think that Garry is actually -- has actually bamboozled the computer into an inferior opening position.

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