George Duke wrote on Fri, Oct 10, 2008 04:06 PM UTC:
Profound Bonn-Pre-fight interview at ChessBase: ''Q: You are using computers extensively in your preparation... Kramnik: [Ironically] Yes, from time to time... Q: Do you think that, under the line, it is a good thing that we have computers? Is it good for Chess, or is it bad?
Kramnik: What do you think: is it good that you have the Internet or is it
bad? [Waits for an answer] Questioner: Hmmmm...Good, I think... K: Actually it is like it is, it is not good or bad, it is like it is and
you have to adjust to it. Of course I would say it was easier for us
before computers, but I don't want to be like an old grandma longing for
the good old days, you know. We have computers that are becoming more and
more powerful, and you simply have to deal with this, if you want to
perform well. So I am trying to adjust myself to the circumstances and to
make the best possible use of the situation. I am not emotional about it. We are already so heavily computerised in the world of chess, to check
everything you analyse with the computer -- it is business as usual
already. Every top player has his own way of dealing with the computer,
to use this incredible instrument in the most efficient way, for himself. Everyone finds his golden middle, and I hope I have found mine. There is
no big advice you can give. Except maybe to say that it can also turn
against you sometimes, if you don't do it well, as you saw for example
in Brissago 2004... Q: You mean the Marshall with the Queen sacrifice...? '' /// *Oh yes. Or rather, needless to say, their ''Marshall'' -- ho hum ho hum
-- is not our Marshall(RN). They could have 3 to 6 times the interest
already if they had innovated by now in not very radical reform. The fact
alone of expectation of half Draws next week should have become
unacceptable. But they are the same as those old grandmas and grandpas longing for the good old days.*
