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How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
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I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.
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For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.
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Having spent a lifetime analyzing the game of chess and comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts. Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind, and are then refined and improved by experience.
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For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.
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With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.
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To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns, they often made more mistakes in their annotations than the players had made at the board.
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By the time a player becomes a Grandmaster, almost all of his training time is dedicated to work on this first phase. The opening is the only phase that holds out the potential for true creativity and doing something entirely new.
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Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.
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Millions like me in Russia want a free press, therule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.
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Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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April 13, 1963
(age 61)
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