Commentary for white move 32:

DB MOVE: 32 Rh3

MAURICE ASHLEY: Patrick Wolff, U.S. champion, who was with us before, two-time U.S. champion. He felt in this position was very good for black, but he also didn't see how to make progress. Ill I can't gurevich, strong, strong player as you well know --

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Grandmaster from New York.

MAURICE ASHLEY: He also had I same -- the same feeling. Good for black. He thought it was a bit freakish that about 4-b5 idea, he didn't like it, he thought it smelled. And -- but he still didn't want to commit. Is that only four or five?

YASSER SEIRAWAN: I think you're coming to five, yeah.

MAURICE ASHLEY: No, there are two more. Robert Byrne, who writes for the New York Times, he liked black's position also. And he was willing to say that if white were a human, he would suggest resignation. Patrick Wolff immediately balked, and said, "What are you talking about? Stop now. You're a newspaper guy. You should be more responsible than that." But he felt that since the computer was playing white he would be very tenacious and defend the position. The strongest opinion actually came from Grandmaster Gabriel Schwartzman who felt that black had a tremendous position, very much liked black, although he also stopped short of saying a won game. Apparently no one is afraid for black -- none of these Grandmasters is afraid of black losing the game but they all had your opinion that -- I came on stage here and you said you don't think black has enough, maybe, to win the position, although black has good pieces?

YASSER SEIRAWAN: I definitely think black has good compensation for the pawn. At the same time black has his own weaknesses. A couple of the computer's decisions I take a strong difference with, and especially -- did we all follow this last move? Can anyone please explain what the heck Rg3-h3 is all about? That's a very, very strange move. I can understand moves like h5, even Kb2, bringing the king into the center. I think the position has such reduced material, I don't see why white should be losing or should lose the game. But after these kind of strange moves Rg3-h1, Ka1, I don't know what the computer is up to.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Garry doesn't know either. He's hopping in his chair a little bit, bouncing back and forth. And he's got to -- has he made -- he has not yet made time control. In fact --

YASSER SEIRAWAN: This is only the 32nd move.

MAURICE ASHLEY: He's far away from time control. So he has to be concerned. If this were a human being playing white you might think that he's trying to confuse his opponent, maybe, for a couple of moves while he gets him into time pressure and works the time pressure. But the computer doesn't make those kind of idle bluffs and tries tore moves like that, so this move we would hope has some sense.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: What's intriguing, Maurice, and if you pick up on this, we've talked about history repeating itself. We all know the Philadelphia result, a win for Deep Blue in game one, a loss for Deep Blue in game two, two draws in games three and four. Well, if this game heads for a draw, it's the exact sequence with the victor's changed as in Philadelphia. And it looks to me -- and by the way we do have a time now.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Kasparov with less than ten minutes on his clock to make eight moves --

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Nine moves.

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