Commentary for white move 31:

GK MOVE: 31 b3

MAURICE ASHLEY: Here Kasparov has played your suggestion, Yaz, b2-b3 defending the c-pawn and leaving his f2 pawn hanging in the wing, but it seems as if he's got plans.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Well, Susan, I mean, your first impression, is this endgame favorable for white?

SUSAN POLGAR: I still think so, yeah.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Still think so.

SUSAN POLGAR: I think it's a riskless endgame, let's put it that way. Black doesn't have much chances to win and white has some chances to win.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: I see. Are we ready for an audience poll? We haven't taken a poll in some hours.

MAURICE ASHLEY: After you have the commercial endorsement, Susan Polgar's, I think aur audience is going to be a little skewed by that --

YASSER SEIRAWAN: I don't know. Our audience has their own minds to make up. Those who think that Garry is going to win. Not as much support as at the start of the game. Those who think that Deep Blue is going to win? Hasn't picked up much support, either. How about a draw? Many hands.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Very independent thinkers, is what I have to say.

SUSAN POLGAR: To answer the gentleman's question, I was just starting to tell the story about the world championship in Spain, that something incredible happened, that never happened before at that level, a world championship, that we played the first two games which ended in a draw, and as we know a draw is one of the results in chess as we have seen in the last two games also and in a world championship match there are tactics that two humans play. There is some psychology involved also. Anyway, the first two games ended in a draw, the 16-game match, you have to keep your energy for the rest of the match, it's almost a month-long battle.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: So you have to pace yourself.

SUSAN POLGAR: Exactly. I lost the first game, and then there were two draws. So I was psychologically down and very hard to recover psychologically. You asked that question before, how to recover from the first game. So I'm down, after three games, and we get a letter all of the sudden after game three that we are fined, both me and my opponent, $25,000 each.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: That's more than admission to the Deep Blue match!

MAURICE ASHLEY: Only Dennis rod man gets those kind of fines.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: I was about to say.

SUSAN POLGAR: So that's not like a paranormal thing, but it sounded like it's impossible, like it was a bad joke. And unfortunately then we had to realize that Mr. Rentero who was the technical director of the match, meant it, but toward the end they defaulted and didn't enforce it on us but during the match it was very disturbing.

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