Interview Vishy Anand 2010

Little Capture from the interview with current World Champion Vishy Anand from the playchess.com server hosted by Frederic Frierdel and GM Jan Gustafsson. The whole interview is available on the playchess.com server!

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[mcguigan97]

Anand had help from the top players because he is a fine person. Players really like him. He's kind, polite, humble, supportive, to list a few traits. No knock on others, but if it were, say, Aronian/Topalov, you would not see these top players all calling up Aronian.

TLDR: it's a credit to Anand the person that everyone wanted to help him out.

[aj2718281]

@websnarf , Well, Topalov had a 112 core Rybka cluster to help him, which I would think is far stronger than any human grandmaster, including Kasparov and Carlsen. So I don't think Anand had a real advantage compared to Topalov.

But you make a very interesting point about the next championship if Carlsen were to make it. I think then there would not be any doubt that Kasparov would be actively coaching Carlsen to beat Anand.

[ankan064]

@QuakePhil , If a superGM is trying to create a novelty, 112 core rybka would make much difference in checking all the variations than a 4 core as the latter relies entirely on opening books.

[reaganpinto]

@QuakePhil very well said.

[klarsteller0815]

Anand very sympatish.

[QuakePhil]

Another point is that training with a computer is useful if you want to train yourself vs another computer. Training with a computer for a human vs human battle is not as good as training with a human for a human vs human battle. Computers see defenses that humans dont, and psychology plays no role in computer training that you can use against a human and that computer analysis will not discover

[QuakePhil]

@aj2718281 112 core is maybe stronger than regular rybka, but even regular rybka is 3200 elo or something crazy like this, which anyone has access to, so I don't see how 112 core rybka is straight away an advantage. Has he found anything with it that you can't find with 4 core rybka? I doubt it

[poepete]

@aj2718281 after recent comments from Carlsen saying his "intuition is clearly better than Garry's" I've noticed Kasparov's attitude towards Carlsen has become a little bit more competitive, as witnessed in some of his commentary during the Carlsen vs the World match. Of course it's just pure speculation, but I get the feeling Kasparov wants to see Carlsen lose to give him a bit of humility.

[luckystrke]

awsome! thanks for posting

[QuakePhil]

@aj2718281 Computer analysis is best when one computer plays another computer. Computer analysis critically does not know how to exploit human weaknesses, and everybody knows this. You want to find a win for white, but instead the computer will show you "perfect play" leading to draw which a human under whatever pressures will overlook. Carlsen and Kasparov and Kramnik, on the other hand, have human psychology insight maybe more valuable

[blackoil911]

topalov is nothing compared to anand

i remember in india , how anand faces brutal opponents such as Kramnik

, Karpov and also Kasparov

Anand basically is the best chess player in the world

[elbay2]

@tatlas Cheparinov, Erwin L'ami and Jan Smeets (both from the Netherlands) and Rybka 4 were Topalov's seconds; I'm not sure about Quinteros and Vallejo-Pons..