Author: Ted Summers
Date: 06:18:40 12/17/05
"Of course the opening now takes almost 50 percent of the whole preparation, and such computer boys as Magnus have a huge advantage over others. They work hard with computers and they have an experienced coach who helps them comprehend new information, to memorize it. The computer cannot substitute humans in everything. Such terms as position conception, experience, intuition, and skill to play an end game still exist. The computer cannot train for strategic struggle in a middle game either. When two high capacity computers with Junior9, Fritz9 and Shredder find incredible things! But in order to understand what is important out of all the material that is discovered and what is not, a strong grandmaster is needed. And the information that they produce is so vast that it is necessary to work a lot again. There is nothing to be done: computers can beat us. But we should not be afraid of this. Chess still remains, people play in it, and it is still a creative game. There are positions still one should think over, one should understand, one should reflect on. I am a representative of the Soviet chess school. I always do creative work. Opening books are full with my games, my opening analyses. Nowadays I have to remake the new things invented by computers. I see no creative source in it. It is just mechanical hard work that demands an unbelievable amount of time and memory. To simply memorize is not interesting. I have worked with many brilliant chess players – Kasparov, Anand, Topalov. All these players have worked for many years with computers; there is no way to escape from that. Vishy even has a Fritz program “installed” in his head. But he has remained a normal person. Other people might have gone crazy." For Full Story See: http://www.worldchesscup2005.com/main.asp?id=704
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