Timeline for Playing Styles of Fischer and Botvinnik
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| Sep 17, 2015 at 13:41 | comment | added | dfan | Yeah, Botvinnik thought a lot about computer chess programs and had some interesting ideas (see his book Computers, Chess and Long-Range Planning), but they didn't really come to anything. At the time most people (including him) thought that strong computer programs would have to calculate and plan like humans rather than perform the relatively complete search they do today. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 13:17 | comment | added | Vivekanand P V | Wikipedia says Botvinnik retired from competitive chess in 1970. I suspect whether chess programs at that time were sophisticated enough to help him analyse the game to any merit. Also, in the book "How Life Imitates Chess", his student Kasparov remembers that Botvinnik never saw his ideas coming to life in his time. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 7:27 | comment | added | firtydank | Sure, I'm not claiming there are no styles, but I am trying to answer the question. "Scientific" and "crystal clear" are not really styles in the sense that you can expand on it and somehow learn from it. Early Tal had a style based on aggressive tactics, complication and sacrifice - maybe he considered it crystal clear too. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 7:24 | comment | added | BlindKungFuMaster | Well, Tal definitely didn't have a "crystal-clear" style. The words may be fuzzy, but they still describe existing qualities. | |
| Aug 18, 2015 at 7:16 | history | edited | firtydank | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 18, 2015 at 7:10 | history | answered | firtydank | CC BY-SA 3.0 |