#Kasparov chess quotes manual

While now you often end up with two hours for fifteen moves. Moreover, at the moment weвЂ™ve got a situation where the control is quite artificially extended, because it was always two hours for forty moves (well, or two and a half), but that was for forty moves! Or for thirty. That also allows you to play with a long time control. The escape is either reducing the time control, or Chess960, which I consider the ideal solution - simply ideal in all regards. For now itвЂ™s still possible to argue about whether weвЂ™ve come to that stage. How is it all going to end? For me thatвЂ™s obvious. But itвЂ™s clear that the situation will get worse and worse, by the year, by the month. For now we can discuss and debate about whether weвЂ™ve come to that yet or not. ThatвЂ™s not so simple, you have to have done it like Kramnik вЂ“ to be phenomenally preparedвЂ¦ in that case you really do get this so-called death. Valery Salov, from a 2009 interview excerpt found on Kevin SpraggettвЂ™s blog. Nowadays the computer dictates how chess preparation develops. The creative element is less and less present in the world! Chess reached this point 20 years ago. In this sense chess is a reflection of that which takes place in other fields of human activities. But IвЂ™ve understood then that it is difficult to change the way things are done. IвЂ™ve tried to fight against it, 10-12 years ago it seemed to me that вЂFischerвЂ™s chessвЂ™ was a way out of the situation arisen. The human element in play is lost completely.

Wesley So, from an interview with Sagar Shah.Д¬hess has ceased to be a struggle of personalities or a struggle of ideas and has instead been transformed into a purely technical and boring work of remembering a large number of prepared opening variations.

Now with most chess players in the world just memorizing computer analysis, itвЂ™s so interesting to see how the greatest players in history worked out the moves with their brains. It is important to learn from their tried and tested techniques and preparations. Yes, I read a lot of the chess classics because our predecessors set the standards for the games we play today.

#Kasparov chess quotes manual

Emanuel Lasker, LaskerвЂ™s Manual of Chess The result, the isolated incident, is rigid, because it is bound to wholly individual conditions. You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, but only methods. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight. I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of good use in many and varied emergencies. If need be, I can increase my skill in Chess, if need be I can do that of which I have no idea at present. Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting what I had learned or read, and since I succeeded in this I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. Memory is too valuable to be stocked with trifles. If you load your memory, you should know why. Chess must not be memorized, simply because it is not important enough. As far as I can see, the greatest piece of wisdom comes from the second World Chess Champion: вЂњ Chess must not be memorized, simply because it is not important enoughвЂќ:Д®ducation in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. These quotes are intended to stimulate thought about the purpose of chess itself, and why chess960 is an attractive option for players (or not, as the case may be).