Kasparov pre-tiebreak comments from the Lisbon airport: "It's amazing they are going to play four games. It's usually 50 minutes to an hour per game, maybe more, then you have to have a rest, so this could go five and half or six hours, incredible. It's not just the time, it's the climaxes and pressure. In a regular game you have one or two peak moments, but in rapid and over four games it's constant. This is how they decide the title? Come on, this isn't Washington Square Park, or maybe that's what they want it to look like. It was a short match, couldn't they have added another pair of games? It's hard to believe Kramnik saw this in the regulations and agreed to it. Maybe I'll see most of the first game before my plane leaves..."

Kasparov game one, still from Lisbon airport: (after move 14) It looks like Topalov is already lost with white. Does he not understand chess at all? What is he doing? Did he think he was improving on game 2? Horrible, amazing... [He had to board the plane after 21.Re2, sorry!] ... [I just gave Garry the last dozen moves over the phone] "Oh, oh, now White is probably even better. Ridiculous. He always has to worry about the a-pawn. From such a position... You remember this guy with the black pieces, Mig? He sacrificed a piece against me, you remember him? What happened to him? Now look at him. Now he could be in deep ****." ... [He had to turn off the phone after 44.Ba6.] "Should be a draw." Was horrified by Kh2, "a terrible place for the king." Pointed out cool line that won for White except for the king being on h2, allowing a queen sacrifice to put a rook on a2 to hit g2. Neat.