Second, they are studied by grandmasters in order to use the novelties in tournament games. First, they are stored in chess engines’ memories, so they can play the openings mostly by memory, not calculation. Specialists make the chess engines play a particular opening thousands of times, and discover “novelties” that is, very good moves that were not played in grandmasters’ games before. Nowadays, chess players’ opening preparation is based on databases with millions of games, updated every day.Ī more recent development is the “opening books”. This Balkan publication put out a few hundred world class games every six months (from 1966 to 1990) or four months (from 1991 to 2011).
These stories are a long way from the days when grandmasters’ opening preparation relied on the Chess Informant. After that he decided to retire from chess. Ivanov refused to do that and was forfeited. This would be impossible even for Magnus Carlsen! His fraudulent activity came to an end when American grandmaster Maxim Dlugy observed that Ivanov was walking in a strange way.īefore his game against Ivanov he took off his shoes and requested the organisers that Ivanov do the same. When his games were compared to those of Houdini the match between them was almost perfect. This year, Bulgarian player Borislav Ivanov surprised the world by beating several players 400 Elo points stronger than him (his expected score in 10 games against those player was 1 to 9), and by playing incredibly fast. Since then, in some tournaments chess players are scanned with metal detectors. The allegation was that Kramnik was getting help from a computer during his frequent visits to the toilet. Russian grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik was unfairly accused of cheating by his opponent, Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov, in the World Chess Championship match played in Elista (Russia) in 2006. CheatingĬhess engines are so powerful and portable that cheating has become a serious issue.
However, they rarely succeed: fans, who are running the analysis on a chess engine, impatiently send a tweet to the commentator with the move that “the computer” suggests. They want to convey to the audience the moves the human grandmasters may be considering, not what silicon machines are calculating.
When some chess master commentators give live online commentary of the games, they refuse to use the engines for their commentary. These engines are so good that beginner players immediately realise when the world class players make mistakes. The engine tells you the best moves in each position, and evaluates each move. Nowadays, it is possible to watch the games live on the internet and run a chess engine on one’s computer. laimagendelmundo/Flickrīefore the computer era, understanding the games of the world championships was difficult even for strong club chess players.
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