Commentary for white move 3:

MAURICE ASHLEY: He has repeated the move c7-c6 which caused Yaz to grown because usually he plays c7-c5. Deep Blue has prepared and played d2-d4.

GK MOVE: 2...d5

DB MOVE: 3 Nc3

MAURICE ASHLEY: This move d5 is in fact different from what he had done in game four. Kasparov had played d7-d6, a bit more cagey, a bit more cautious, and /TPHOUZ he's going into what looks like a Caro-Kann.

YASSER SEIRAWAN: Exactly. The first two moves for Garry, c6 and d5, it's an opening I play all the time, in fact. What we saw in game 4 was not the move d7-d5, this really obscure unusual move d7-d6. And like I said, Garry got a good game in that particular game. But, again, it's not first-line openings by Garry Kasparov. Now this move d7-d5. And let me just talk about this for a moment. Garry Kasparov is not a Caro-Kann player. The Caro-Kann is an opening that is very quiet, that is to say it's a very positional-based opening. Tactics usually come much later in the game and it's very often that in a Caro-Kann style of play, the whole game is a strategic, positional game. I had hoped as you saw me, I tried to make a prediction that Garry is going to play his favorite Sicilian, c7-c5, which he didn't do. So I don't know what Garry was expecting with the Caro-Kann.

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