Garry Kasparov Answers Chess Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED

hi I'm Gary Kasparov and I'm here to answer your chess related questions from Twitter why do all question mark chess players point at pieces squares with middle finger do we I'm not sure I I never paid attention to that fact maybe we have to ask a psychologist to see the enough samples for us to come up with such an such a definite conclusion bishop or Knight it depends if you're religious or not the general assumption is that those slight pieces are of equal price in pounds I think Bobby Fischer was the first one who indicated that Bishop should be valued higher 3.25 three points for night I was more reserved actually I put 3.15 four for Bishop but now with looking at some of the computer games I would say that maybe Fischer's evaluation was was correct after machines played millions of games we just learned that bishops value is simply higher since in many more cases it was more useful piece do I have to develop all of my minor pieces before activating my queen the answer is yes queen is the strongest piece but you can argue the weakest one because if it's attacked it has to move move move away because it's most valuable piece I can come up with many opening positions were activating the queen is it's very natural so there are many openings where your queen is being developed at as early as boom four or five I would recommend for weak players to follow the rule and not to bring your queen into the battle too early but for those who are making progress in the game of chess by studying openings professionally you have to be cautious all the time trying to apply general rules are universally all the time why do chess players tend to castle even though it's villa restricts the kings King safety is a number-one priority and obviously after castle you remove king from the vulnerable position in the center so restricting the Kings movement is is not as as dangerous as living the king in the open you are in doubt and you want to castle but short or long in one and two it depends on your on your mood I would say if you Castle short it's a roughly even game but you cannot expect to gain an advantage so castling long is more aggressive more ambitious but it's it's riskier now with the second one but has very comfortable game they can simply Castle a short and have excellent position I would probably go short castle but maybe it's my age talking what is your favorite gambit opening in chess with a white B black I don't think gambits are just offering you an advantage against the world prepared to open opponent I loved Evans gambit I played there quite a few games and some of them are instructive wins now was black we played a couple of times ball gambit banker gambit known in the free world I can only think of any real gambit Swiss was black except this dated the banker gambit where you can that you can employ ID ID at the professional level is the casbah in your expert opinion why doesn't Adam Carlson for that matter ever use something wild like Kings gambit because it's wild players that level they they don't play wild openings and serious games I can tell you spend a lot of time analyzing it and it always ends up with whose negative results so that's why if you're a big fan of the King's gambit I wouldn't recommend you holding your breath expecting Carlsen or other top players employing it in the top tournaments oh another note do you advocate Evans gambit or stronger player or will it be crush these days it's hard to say no for Evans gambit because I want quite a few games very memorable one against vision in 1995 the first time I used Evans gambit so for strong player someone who's known for his or her preparation I think you have to be very cautious by making such a choice it depends very much on what you mean it's a strong player so because we can we can disagree on the definition though I think that if you want to play such a sharp opening as Evans gambit sacrificing opponent before you are not thinking what equalizing you thinking about taking Isha t'v and crushing your opponents so I'm again it's up to you but just bear in mind that Evans gambit has disappeared completely from from the games of the top players can anyone recommend a good book on chest end game mark vronsky's book end game it helps strong players to become stronger so I enjoyed reading the book and as it's you can always learn something from there even if you if you are weak relevant weak player or a very strong one is control of the center one of the most important things you must do in order to win the game of chess yeah it is very very important but I can give you many examples where you control the center but the king is being mated I would strongly recommend that you put King safety as a number-one priority tech AI types as a genuine question how much should we read into the ability of a computer to quickly get really good at chess or go it's impressive but it's also about logic and involves very constrained and ultimately limited choices I think you answer the question it's about the logic but it's a closed system because we establish the rules we should recognize that the moment the open-ended system has been limited to closed framework machines will do a better job by simply just going around this and establishing their own set of priorities chess and other games they like all they offer income and excellent actual opportunity to to study the ability of machines for us to look into much bigger problems of the universe and nature learning chess why does the horsey one move so crazy why not straight lines like castle hat I can tell you that in any version of chess there are different rules and different patterns for instance Japanese game called shogi it has many different rules that are there an issue for our eyes because we train just to look at our chess I think it's just it's somehow it's a combination of of the different abilities of the pieces and I can tell you that our forebears did a great job by actually coming up with such a balanced game thank you very much for asking all these questions they were very different some of them are too professional to my taste some of them are very primitive again to my taste but that's the beauty of the game of chess you could enjoy the game you can ask questions even if you are very weak player or if you are experienced club player only with a very very strong player and that's creates this global chess family and I'm always happy to address any concern that comes from every layer of our chests knowledge in the world

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Length: 7min 46sec (466 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 16 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Ramesses_Deux]

What do all the different Gambits mean? King, Evans?

[u/brtt3000]

I don't play or know much about chess but this was interesting to see a relaxed pro interact about his craft.