Commentary for white move 7:

GK MOVE: 6...e6.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: A number of chess openings. And one of Joel's favorite defenses when he's black is exactly the defense that Garry Kasparov is now playing. So it's kind of funny that Garry is playing what Deep Blue's trainer espouses himself. There's something going on there.

MIKE VALVO: You know, I can almost hear Joel talking about this position. "Here I have a French defense with a bishop outside the pawn structure, just what I want to have. And that's what Garry's achieved.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Well, at the same time after Kasparov's last move, e7-e6, Deep Blue did respond immediately with the move Qe2.

DB MOVE: 7 Qe2

MAURICE ASHLEY: So it must know something /PW-L position also. And one thing I noticed, Yaz, is even when you play your favorite pet lines there's certain areaiations you know. You don't really like to face. Certain little setups that you say this is the best way to play and this annoys me when you have to play against it and you'd rather not your opponent play the line and if that's the case Joel could have easily programmed in the best line that he thinks anyway that gives white the most chances.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Indeed. If Joel in his testing against Deep Blue, decided "Look, let me learn something, too, let me do my favorite opening setups, and if Deep Blue beats me, well, then I've learned something, and I can perhaps use it in my own practice. So it's a reasonable guess that Joel would have said, "Hey, I like this defense for black. I've played it against United States champion Walter Brownee and a number of other strong, illustrious Grandmasters. Let's see how Deep Blue would handle it. So Garry is walking perhaps into a mine field. And again, because we have transposed immediately into a book line Garry once again is going to be falling behind on the clock. I just will ask Maurice to give our presentation on the stage so that those of you who are unique to the match will be able to follow some of the little tools and graphs behind us.

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