Author: Vikrant Malvankar
Date: 04:06:23 02/02/06
Peter Swidler on Computers http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2897 "Chess and computer: what is the interest other than the money? You mean playing against the computer? Yes. For me there is no particular interest. I never have been offered any serious matches, but, in general, I think playing against computers is not very exciting. Computers play so well these days that, to have a chance to win, you have to work very hard – and work hard at things that probably will be counter productive when you play against humans – so it probably will harm your chess a little. If there is no financial incentive, I don’t see why there is any interest at all. You can try competing with computers at calculation, but this is not very wise, if you want to win. So, basically you have to train in playing closed positions, keeping it as simple and as non-tactical as possible. It is possible but there is not much fun in that. Playing the computer – I mean proper seven hour games – I never saw any attraction in that, apart from money. So I don’t really play against the computers. I use computers, as we all do, for help when analyzing, as a background check. You analyze and have the computer running in the background, to keep your analysis relatively blunder free. And that’s about it. "
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