SOME GET TOO MUCH WITH THE PROGRAM
By ANDY SOLTIS
NY Post
April 22, 2007 — Chess WHEN the artificial intelligence folks started work on chess-playing computers more than 50 years ago, they tried to figure out how to make a machine think like a master. But today the road of mastery for many players is to learn to think like a machine.
Youngsters now grow up playing a computer program like Fritz. As a result, they tend to develop a materialist style that works best against machines.
Former world champion Anatoly Karpov says this leads to “superficiality,” even in the play of the world’s current No. 1, Vishwanathan Anand of India.
Karpov recalled watching a speed tournament in Corsica when Anand reached a complex Sicilian Defense position. Karpov suggested to his fellow spectators what Anand should play.
“No, Vishy won’t play that,” said Chess Base’s Frederic Friedel. “Because Fritz wouldn’t play it.”
Here is the full story by GM Soltis.
does soltis stil play chess?
In my profile last Monday on The Chess Mind blog, the second “tip for ambitious players” I gave is relevant here:
“I still agree with advice I read as a teenager to play over many master games, even without looking at annotations, ‘learning by osmosis’. I believe this should be done at a physical board, not a computer screen—and without being distracted by chess engine evaluations.”