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Vishy Anand on Staying in the Game

30 Aug 2023 19 published claims 2 attributable people
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Tyler CowenVishy Anand

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evaluation 8belief 6recommendation 2uncertainty 1commitment 1preference 1

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03 / belief

In most cases, at least in my experience, the way to get out of it is to stop thinking about how to solve it and almost lighten yourself and get back to playing a normal game for normal reasons.

“In most cases, at least in my experience, the way to get out of it is to stop thinking about how to solve it and almost lighten yourself and get back to playing a normal game for normal reasons.”
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Vishy Anand
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04 / belief

What I think is helping him is playing blitz tournaments nonstop online. That allows him to keep there, and it might be the best way to train for a modern computerized opening preparation era, where there’s so little to do with preparation because the computer solves everything, but you get to test every concept a million times over the board.

“What I think is helping him is playing blitz tournaments nonstop online. That allows him to keep there, and it might be the best way to train for a modern computerized opening preparation era, where there’s so little to do with preparation because the computer solves everything, but you get to test every concept a million times over the board.”
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Vishy Anand
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05 / uncertainty

There’s an interview with Magnus on YouTube, and they ask him to rate your sanity on a scale of 1 to 10 — I don’t know if you’ve seen this — and he gives you a 10.

“There’s an interview with Magnus on YouTube, and they ask him to rate your sanity on a scale of 1 to 10 — I don’t know if you’ve seen this — and he gives you a 10.”
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Tyler Cowen
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06 / belief

I realized that the same people who caused me a lot of problems earlier in the year — I was at least able to deal with them. It’s a work in progress because they also constantly work at self-improvement and so on, but at least I felt I could confront them on equal terms.

“I realized that the same people who caused me a lot of problems earlier in the year — I was at least able to deal with them. It’s a work in progress because they also constantly work at self-improvement and so on, but at least I felt I could confront them on equal terms.”
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Vishy Anand
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07 / belief

Some lines will go that far, but equally, you can use the computer to solve the problem that the computer has created, which is, if you take a single line and you go, I think you can go very, very far.

“Some lines will go that far, but equally, you can use the computer to solve the problem that the computer has created, which is, if you take a single line and you go, I think you can go very, very far.”
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Vishy Anand
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08 / commitment

Every single line you refute and clean up, and you feel like you’ve cleaned your entire house of clutter, and you feel wonderful. It’s a double-edged sword, I will concede that, but it’s a pain in the neck when you want to rely on something.

“Every single line you refute and clean up, and you feel like you’ve cleaned your entire house of clutter, and you feel wonderful. It’s a double-edged sword, I will concede that, but it’s a pain in the neck when you want to rely on something.”
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Vishy Anand
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10 / evaluation

New versions, we are never going to catch up with computers. But for playing amongst ourselves, this is completely new territory, and there’s a lot of scope for creativity and everything we used to look for.

“New versions, we are never going to catch up with computers. But for playing amongst ourselves, this is completely new territory, and there’s a lot of scope for creativity and everything we used to look for.”
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Vishy Anand
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11 / recommendation

The top grandmaster’s insight has to be, take a look at the club player, gauge what work he might have done, have a sense of what areas he specializes in, then avoid them at all costs because that’s the best strategy for success.

“The top grandmaster’s insight has to be, take a look at the club player, gauge what work he might have done, have a sense of what areas he specializes in, then avoid them at all costs because that’s the best strategy for success.”
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Vishy Anand
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12 / evaluation

” Because I thought Carlsen is of the level of Kramnik and Topalov, so playing against him gives me a good sense of how they’ll play, how the games will materialize, and so on.

“” Because I thought Carlsen is of the level of Kramnik and Topalov, so playing against him gives me a good sense of how they’ll play, how the games will materialize, and so on.”
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Vishy Anand
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13 / preference

I played a little bit here and there whenever I could because I still like playing, and for me, chess tournaments are primarily social events where you meet everyone, and you hang out with everyone again.

“I played a little bit here and there whenever I could because I still like playing, and for me, chess tournaments are primarily social events where you meet everyone, and you hang out with everyone again.”
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Vishy Anand
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14 / evaluation

My thing was, I’ll check the top two things, and I’ll figure out the rest, which was not as silly as it sounds today because back in the day, that’s how you played chess.

“My thing was, I’ll check the top two things, and I’ll figure out the rest, which was not as silly as it sounds today because back in the day, that’s how you played chess.”
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Vishy Anand
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17 / evaluation

The idea was, you are a better natural player than me, so you should try to steer the game through to Slav’s more harmless — which is how we came under the Kramnik approach — more harmless waters.

“The idea was, you are a better natural player than me, so you should try to steer the game through to Slav’s more harmless — which is how we came under the Kramnik approach — more harmless waters.”
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Vishy Anand
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18 / evaluation

Whenever somebody tells me, “I don’t know how you concentrate for seven hours,” I understand that they don’t know how we play chess, or that they haven’t played chess themselves because we do not concentrate for seven hours.

“Whenever somebody tells me, “I don’t know how you concentrate for seven hours,” I understand that they don’t know how we play chess, or that they haven’t played chess themselves because we do not concentrate for seven hours.”
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Vishy Anand
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