Oh, the humanity: Chess computers changed the game, but not the players

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Oh, the humanity: Chess computers changed the game, but not the players
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At the World Chess Championships last week, two grandmasters played to a draw in their first five games. Four games later, however, the humanity of chess was on display.

that even chess engines on mobile phones can almost always beat the best human players.

“They’re doing what players have been doing since at least the 16th century, when the Spanish bishop [Ruy López de Segura] was inventing the Spanish Opening,” he said. “They are expanding theory, they are researching moves — mostly the possibilities of moves in the opening phase.” “Both had access to more or less the same machine help,” Doggers said of Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi. “Their differences are because they still have a human understanding of the game, and humans still have to make some of the decisions.”

“Carlsen has been trying to do this the whole match, which is to take the game out of what we call the ‘theory book’ early so that he [Nepomniachtchi] is forced to think on his own,” Anand said. “In the first five games, Ian was able to match up to this and cope pretty well… but in game six it seemed that psychologically he collapsed first, and Magnus has been rampaging after that.”

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