Commentary for black move 11:

MIKE VALVO: It seems so. He said yesterday "I'm not afraid to say I'm afraid." You said are you going to play powerful in the last game, and he said, "I'll play the best moves that I can."

MAURICE ASHLEY: Garry is known for his bravado --

GK MOVE: 11...b5

MAURICE ASHLEY: He's going to put me at a loss for words in a minute, and that's not easy to do. b7-b5 has been played. b7-b5, Yaz.

MIKE VALVO: Could we see the computer's clock? I want to see if this has all been book.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: I think the computer has played very quickly, --

MIKE VALVO: I was wondering if they were out of book.

MAURICE ASHLEY: Deep Blue has used only six minutes to play 12 moves. Kasparov has used 15 minutes, but the time spent was really on only one move and that was the last move, b7 /HAOEUFP d5. Every other move he actually played quickly. But h6 took him a little time to play, a little time, and then suddenly the sacrifice, Nxe6? A. This mover, Yaz, b7-b5, what's this about? Seems to me to develop -- he should be wanting to develop pieces, not push pawns.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: What Garry has to do obviously is develop his pieces. If you look at his army, the two bishops on the back row, the two rooks, the misplaced black king means that Garry has to make a great deal of repairs to his position. I had just put on the board the move Nd5 that comes with tempo. Then the idea was Bg3 Qe7-b4, trying to develop the queen, preparing the knight retreat Nb5-e7. He wants to make sure the knight when it comes to d5 stays there, and there will not be the move c2-c4. So what he did with this last move, b7-b5 is to try to secure the square d5 for his knight so that he won't have to worry about the move c2-c4.

MAURICE ASHLEY: But, Yaz, can this position tolerate more pawn weaknesses? His king on D eight won't find a home for a very, very long time. Of course the point of the game is to checkmate the king and the best thing you can do is have pawns behind it. These pawns look suspicious as defenders of this king on d8. I don't even see how the king will ever get back to the king-side. This could be a long trek indeed. b7-b5 seems a little loose to be playing in this kind of situation.

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