Chess with Instincts
How much difference it make to a professional player if he is stripped of the time granted to make his moves?
Not much if you see the progress of the World Blitz Chess Championship 2009. These strong GMs are making astonishing moves even with just 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment games. How has this become possible?
If you just go back to the historic match between Kasparov and Karpov in 1984 and 1985, analyze the games with strong engines on, you will see that even these legends made mini-blunders once in a while. Such mistakes will be duly punished in these strong computing times. Strong Chess engines have made the process of human analysis almost redundant. Of course, you still can do it on the board after the game, but one is sure to find lines later in detailed analysis.
You can clearly see that the top players are really playing almost to their usual strength and the progress is not erratic. The ones in form perform anyway.
From this one can conclude that the game will get shorter and shorter. Sad to some, but inevitable. Chess is slowly becoming a game of instincts at the highest level.
Not much if you see the progress of the World Blitz Chess Championship 2009. These strong GMs are making astonishing moves even with just 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment games. How has this become possible?
If you just go back to the historic match between Kasparov and Karpov in 1984 and 1985, analyze the games with strong engines on, you will see that even these legends made mini-blunders once in a while. Such mistakes will be duly punished in these strong computing times. Strong Chess engines have made the process of human analysis almost redundant. Of course, you still can do it on the board after the game, but one is sure to find lines later in detailed analysis.
You can clearly see that the top players are really playing almost to their usual strength and the progress is not erratic. The ones in form perform anyway.
From this one can conclude that the game will get shorter and shorter. Sad to some, but inevitable. Chess is slowly becoming a game of instincts at the highest level.
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