Vassily Ivanchuk Professions : Chess PlayerBorn : March 18, 1969 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Vassily Ivanchuk When I start to play a game I try to forget about previous games and try to concentrate on this game. This game is now the most important to me. But of course I am not a computer and you cannot simply press a button, delete, and everything you want to forget disappears automatically. But if you want to play well, it's important to concentrate on the now. Vassily Ivanchuk gamesplaysuccess Some scientist needs to explain to spectators Einstein's relativity theory. Before his explanation, he says: 'I have to suffer a lot explaining something I don't understand myself.' This relates to my game: I didn't understand anything! Vassily Ivanchuk sufferinggamesneeds Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have to prove the assessment with very strong moves and if you don't find all of these strong moves you may lose very quickly. For a computer this is not a problem, but for humans it is not so easy. Vassily Ivanchuk assessmentstrongmoving It's a very special generation, because during our careers the computer entered chess. So we know how to play without computers, which is also important. We can analyse without computers. I am not saying that younger players cannot do this, but we are more in the habit of doing this. That's important to improve your chess understanding. Vassily Ivanchuk careersunderstandingplayer Similar Authors Irving Chernev chess-player Boris Spassky chess-player Boris Gelfand chess-player Arthur Bisguier chess-player Arpad Elo chess-player Anatoly Karpov chess-playerAll Authors
