Commentary for white move 36:

Maurice and I were speculating, Maurice speculated that maybe the computer saw it was going to be -- to reach this position, in the short-term, over the next couple of moves where white has these doubled pawns on g5 and g3, and black maintains these pawns on g7 and h5 and we thought maybe the computer evaluated this position as being better for black, for itself, because of white's weak -- well, in its mind, weak, doubled G pawns. But as a matter of fact as I'm sure Yasser will agree, this is in fact a much better position for white than he has had for a long time.

DB MOVE: 35...Nd6

YASSER SEIRAWAN: After Nc8, Kasparov quickly played Bd5. We saw the move 35 Nc8-d6 by Deep Blue. And Garry quickly responded --

GK MOVE: 36 Re6

YASSER SEIRAWAN: -- a bit of a surprise.

MIKE VALVO: Maybe he's afraid of Ne4.

PATRICK WOLFF: Yes, I think so that's absolutely right, Mike. I think Garry is continuing to play against this weak knight, taking away this e4 square, taking away this e8 square, making it very difficult for the computer to activate this knight on d6, which is a large part of Kasparov's advantage throughout. Yasser, what do you think of white's position here?

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Oh, I like white's position. I was just a little curious. Garry played the move Bd5 very quickly after the move Nc8, and one of the things that I was wondering about is why he didn't play, for example, the move Bf3. You know, there's an h-pawn on the board, it's vulnerable, let's go out after it, and --

PATRICK WOLFF: I think this makes a lot of sense. It's true.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: He was very quick. Perhaps he foresaw that he didn't want to allow the knight back to e4. For example, Nd6 Bxh5, and then a knight could jump to the e4 square. Maybe the other knight, even.

MIKE VALVO: Well, the f5 square -- pa.

PATRICK WOLFF: And you don't want to do this because the B on h5 is very bad. Garry is very, very good at these kinds of positions. (Audience laughter.)

YASSER SEIRAWAN: We have to agree with you.

PATRICK WOLFF: I guess, I'm sorry, obviously Garry Kasparov is phenomenal in all kinds of chess positions but he's particularly good at making the opponent's pieces look bad. He's very good at these controlled positions where he has to play against a certain piece, keep it out of the board while he maximizes his own active play. I really think he has very good chances to win this.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Well, one of the things I have to give Deep Blue credit for is that in the past, computers have played positionally very, very badly. A computer wouldn't have recognized that the about -- that the b6 knight was really out of the game. And by bringing it to the d6 square, very, very sensible. If Deep Blue were to lose this game it's because like you said it got outplayed by Garry and many of us do, but at the same time I agree with you it's nice to see there's certain moments in this game that Deep Blue outplayed Garry.

MIKE VALVO: What is this, a victim's club here?

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Well, it's a long line of victims!

PATRICK WOLFF: Of Garry Kasparov.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: There are certain tells that I love of Garry Kasparov. When I use the word "tell," I'm using a poker term. You play a poker match with a group of your friends and when they're bluffing, they reveal themselves either by getting nervous or stroking their hair or doing something. Garry's tells are very, very obvious because he's a passionate person. When he's in trouble, the jacket comes off, and after the jacket comes off and it's time to go to dinner, he knows the game he's winning, he puts his watch back on. One of the things that you have to look for -- it's difficult to see because we're watching it from the monitors is when he really, really likes a move, he screws it into the board. It's sort of like "/OEFRBGS take that, take that."

PATRICK WOLFF: That's actually a common mannerism for all chess players, but Garry with so many things has more of what's common for many chess players.

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