jessicafischerqueen: <Deffi> yep he zoned out in an endgame that almost nobody understood, despite everybody sitting on top of powerful chess engines.You need more than the engine, you need to know how to interrogate it.
Did you notice <acirce> repeatedly posting that he "didn't yet understand the computer line" he was getting?
That's the mark of a man who understands the true relationship between a computer line and a human understanding of a chess position.
It was striking that the first people to notice <Grand Piano's> blunder were GM commentators, including <Nigel's little baby loves Shortenin> and the GMs at other sites.
They sit on the engines too- but they are much, much better at understanding what their engines tell them. And more, they are better than their engines at correctly evaluating certain kinds of position, especially in the end game.
We all have engines as good as Nigel's but he had a much deeper understanding of the position when Anand made the blunder.
In fact it wasn't Nigel's engine that sounded the alarm at the point of the blunder, it was Nigel's chess brain that sounded the alarm: "Wait a minute, isn't that a ....." and yes he was right.
He knew first, and he posted it first.
Sorry to go on about this but there's a debate among some of the "chess video crowd" on youtube right now on the topic of what you need to make good analysis videos.
One chap said "you don't need to be a strong player to make a good instructional video, you only need a chess engine."
I countered with "you need to be a strong enough player to interrogate your chess engine in order to make a good instructional video."
I even supplied an example- Sean Godley (strong player) and another fellow both analyzed the same line (from Game Six), but only Sean realized that the line was no good. The other fellow said it was good.
So I spent an embarrassingly long time interrogating my own chess engine to check this out and yes Sean was right and the other guy was wrong.
The line isn't good.
Point is that a strong player will be able to interpret a computer better, and more quickly, than a weak player.
Pretty sure.
Don't worry about Grand Piano he will strike back.
Now the ball's in his court, it's almost like having the advantage to lose a game.
Kibitzing
