Getting Ready for Your Opponent in the Information Age
… Where before you couldn’t mistake the voices of the outstanding performers, now everyone speaks the same computer Esperanto, and it’s only if you listen carefully that you can detect a weak individual accent. When looking through games it’s hard, or in fact almost impossible, to accurately determine who’s playing. While the style of Botvinnik, Petrosian, Tal, Fischer or Karpov can easily be guessed without looking at the heading, in the best achievements of the modern leaders you can clearly sense the universal computer perfection. For now that’s only in the opening stage and the middlegames arising from it, but progress won’t stand still!
--Vladimir Tukmakov, chess grandmaster, former national champion of Ukraine and outstanding chess trainer and coach