E' un po' come pensavo, e credo di aver scritto tempo fa in questo topic: il computer sta uccidendo gli scacchi come sport.
C'e' un bell'articolo dell'Atlantic al riguardo:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ ... er/671472/
In the past 15 years, widely available AI software packages, known as “chess engines,” have been developed to the point where they can easily demolish the world’s best chess players—so all a cheater has to do to win is figure out a way to channel a machine’s advice. That’s not the only way that computers have recently reshaped the landscape of a 1,500-year-old sport. Human players, whether novices or grandmasters, now find inspiration in the outputs of these engines, and they train themselves by memorizing computer moves. In other words, chess engines have redefined creativity in chess, leading to a situation where the game’s top players can no longer get away with simply playing the strongest chess they can, but must also engage in subterfuge, misdirection, and other psychological techniques. In that sense, the recent cheating scandal only shows the darker side of what chess slowly has become.
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As engines became widespread, the game shifted. Elite chess has always involved rote learning, but “the amount of stuff you need to prepare, the amount of stuff you need to remember, has just exploded,” Sadler said. Engines can calculate positions far more accurately and rapidly than humans, so there’s more material to be studied than ever before. What once seemed magical became calculable; where one could rely on intuition came to require rigorous memorization and training with a machine. Chess, once poetic and philosophical, was acquiring elements of a spelling bee: a battle of preparation, a measure of hours invested. “The thrill used to be about using your mind creatively and working out unique and difficult solutions to strategical problems,” the grandmaster Wesley So, the fifth-ranked player in the world, told me via email. “Not testing each other to see who has the better memorization plan.”
Penso che il comportamento recente di Carlsen rappresenti bene questa crisi. Prima il rifiuto di sottoporsi ancora una volta a mesi di studio per preparare la sfida mondiale. Poi il boicottaggio, immagino efficace, di un avversario che lo ha battuto a suo parere barando. Entrambe sono risposte ad una situazione causata dai computer. (Si viveva meglio senza?
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In un modo o nell'altro, Carlsen di recente sta bastonando a sangue il suo sport.
“LA VITA È COSÌ: VIENI, FAI FAI E POI TE NE VAI” S.B.