Commentary for black move 34:

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Clearly. But I'm finding myself more and more perplexed by Deep Blue's moves. I don't understand these endgame motifs. Garry's last move of a powerful move, he brings his rook to the seventh rank, and now he can follow it up with the natural Rf2-g2. That would attack the g4 pawn, prepare the other rook to come down the board, and let's just imagine that Deep Blue likes to hold onto his pawns --

GK MOVE: 34...H g2

MAURICE ASHLEY: That g-pawn, I don't think that's a pawn Deep Blue can give up.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Assume that Deep Blue tries to keep it for just a moment, g4-g5, then either the immediate Rf8-f2, or even Ne6xd4 e3xd4 knight drops back to e6, that would expose both the c2 pawn and d4 pawn to direct attack, and it looks to me like Deep Blue is in deep doo-doo. I got trapped into that one, folks, I'm sorry. I just couldn't get out of it.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Rg2 I must admit to the last couple of moves, now Kasparov's initiative seems to be growing move by move. It is --

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Fritz has got a turncoat on us, too. Fritz has new /SELTD -- Fritz is now evaluating the position as clearly in Kasparov's favor. So we've seen a turn --

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