Computer chess analysis has been around for how long? Years surely. I read an article by John Nunn where he described the machine that assisted him in doing game analysis and surely top players use machines as a matter of course to find better moves.
So, Player A uses Fritz to find a better line against player B and the next time these two meet, he plays the line that Fritz suggested and wins the game. This game goes into the collective chess database.
Imagine this sort of thing becoming common; more and more computer moves find their way into the chess database and more and more computer refutations to computer suggested moves get in there too.
Now imagine somebody who is an absolute chess fanatic, a very good player in his own right as well, playing on an internet correspondence site. This guy has every aid, every up-to-date database at his fingertips. Would it be surprising if he started to look like a computer?
Originally posted by KneverKnightYes, if you consider that database moves are ignored in analyses of games.
Computer chess analysis has been around for how long? Years surely. I read an article by John Nunn where he described the machine that assisted him in doing game analysis and surely top players use machines as a matter of course to find better moves.
So, Player A uses Fritz to find a better line against player B and the next time these two meet, he pla ...[text shortened]... o-date database at his fingertips. Would it be surprising if he started to look like a computer?