When I Was A Child I Liked

In Games Against Humans, You Often Win Because The Opponent Blunders A Piece, And You Can Often Survive When You Do It Yourself. Against The Computer, You Make Only One Mistake - The Last One.

Look At The Catastrophic Record Vishy Anand Has Against Garry Kasparov. Kasparov Managed To Beat Him Almost Everywhere They Played, Even Though Vishy Anand Has Belonged To The Absolute Top Players In The World For Fifteen Years. This Difference Cannot Be Explained Purely In Chess Terms, There Must Have Been Some Psychology.

My Very First Book Was A Games Collection Of Anatoly Karpov. On The Whole I Was Attracted By Positonal Play With Some Tactics, And Already Then I Was Aiming For Universality.

So Basically It's Very Simple: To Start With, If You Want To Win The Match, You Shouldn't Be Afraid Of Him. There Are Still Many, Many Things To Do, But Above All This Is The Most Important: Don't Be Scared Of Him!

I Believe Every Chess Player Senses Beauty, When He Succeeds In Creating Situations, Which Contradict The Expectations And The Rules, And He Succeeds In Mastering This Situation.