Commentary for white move 19:

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Well, that Yasser Seirawan is a brilliant guy, okay? (Audience laughter.) 19000

YASSER SEIRAWAN: We do have a move, so I'll interrupt myself --

GK MOVE: 19 000

YASSER SEIRAWAN: What I was saying, earlier in the game when Deep Blue played the move Bb4+ and h5 and then came this move c3, perhaps the computer should have retreated his bishop to d6, because from d6 it was controlling the f4 square, there was the e5 break and so on, and let's just go back a quick moment just so that I can explain, I hope, to the gentleman's satisfaction why the bishop may have been misplaced on d6. Well, we'll continue, Qe2, Qc7. And now came the move Be7 as opposed to the move Bd6. I think the problem with this move is that after d3-/TPW* 4 Ng6 h4, white is going to play the move Nd2-c4 in the near future. So the bishop will be vulnerable on d6 to the attack. I think it's that simple, although I, too, wondered maybe the bishop was better, more active on d6.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Well, that's my original -- you said the f4 square, that's what I was wondering.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Yes, just what the gentleman said. It seemed the bishop was more active on d6 but it seems it also was a little bit more very well /TPHURBL. Let's go to the game, the position at hand. Mike, can you get us to the game position and let's just see what Deep Blue now has. After 000, what Garry hopes to do is to invite Bxg5 hxg5 and for the computer to commit a horrendous blunder. A horrendous blunder is to do nothing, a7-a6, and this is Garry's threat, Rh1xh5 so that after Rxh5 Qxg4+, Garry picks up a knight and a pawn. Maybe that was one of the --

MIKE VALVO: That's real like he will! (Audience laughter.)

YASSER SEIRAWAN: No, that's very unlikely. Just setting him up for what Garry has in mind. Also, after gxg5+, new variation, hxg5. Assume with me, for example, like a move Rhe8. This move comes with tempo but it's a very temporary one. After the queen gets out of danger, Qc2, this pawn on h5 is going to be hanging for a while. So it's quite conceivable that Deep Blue will not want to /SKHAEUPBGS bishops on g5. And again after a move like Rhe8 now, again, we'll see a move like Qc2. And then in this case after Qc2 there's always the possibilities of Qf5+ and Qxf7. So Deep Blue has to discovered what it wants to do about this bishop on g5. One idea, and maybe not such a good one, I don't know -- is that it will just play the move rook -- A-ha. I can't play the move /EU79D# to. What I wanted to do was play the Rd8-e8 so that after Qc2 I wanted to play Bc5, but I of course have overlooked the move Qf5+ and capturing the bishop on c5. So Deep Blue right now has some problems that it has to solve. I think for Garry it's very difficult to squeeze an advantage out of this position. The game is too balanced. There's three verst three on the king-side, three pawns vs. three pawns on the queen-side, and very balanced position. This is a tough kind of game to get an advantage against the computer. Again, I want to invite questions directed at Matt.

MIKE VALVO: Right here, we have one over here.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Question?

MIKE VALVO: It's a race, who gets the mike first. He won.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: This is a question for the Deep Blue team. Given Deep Blue's parallel processing abilities and the Internet, have you thought of having a worldwide simultaneous exhibition by Deep Blue, which would of course break all the records for one opponent playing people at the same time. It seems like it could create a tremendous interest in chess having it play perhaps over a hundred thousand games simultaneously worldwide. (Audience applause.)

YASSER SEIRAWAN: The gentleman is suggesting that Deep Blue challenge the entire world. Humanity is ready! (Audience laughter.) Technically it's possible.

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