Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 03:00:37 10/06/05
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>Yes, his attitude sounds poor. > >If you are a competitor, you play to kill. If you are a good competitor, you >play to kill, all the time. If you are a bad competitor, you don't take your >opponent seriously, and end up saying something like "Why must I lose to this >idiot?" when they beat you. > >I'm surprised that any GM would say this kind of thing and mean it, much less >Karpov. > >bruce Sounds to me like he wants to "explain" why humans are capable of losing to computers in this day and age, by stating that it is impossible for humans to truly take these matches seriously enough (even with a lot of money involved) to muster up their finest play, as at all times the thought that they are playing a toy always lurks in their mind. Well one should of course examine that logic and see if it has any validity, but for this to take place i for one would have to concede that Karpov don't play chess, but people. And to be honest i don't think that is the case for one second, to achieve his level of strength (in his fine hey-day) one would have to look beyond the psychology and concentrate on the chessboard and become obsessed with finding the strongest move at all times, regardless of what the opponent is made of. What Mr. Karpov is obviously not aware of is how much his statements on this subject says about himself and his reasoning as opposed to a general explanation of why "Humans occasionally lose to computers in long timed games". He also says that "Yes, those things play strong in blitz, but that's all..." Which seems like a rather outdated view and tells me that he hasn't been paying attention since the time, where that opinion was a valid one. All in all it is my opinion that he is either living in total denial or the man is not the brightest bulp in the chandelier, and as i am sure the latter is not the case he is most likely refusing to see how strong computers has become at long time controls. So what are his motives for refusing to acknowledge the strength of todays compueters and calling them toys, well one can only speculate, but maybe he wants a valid excuse prepared for the day he acuses the computer team of stuffing a midget GM in to that PC thingy... :) Regards Jonas
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