The Corner of the Immortals (chess videos): Error as the mother of art | The corner of the immortals

Gawain Jones (England, 1987) appeared on the cover of The Guardian at the age of 9 because he was the youngest international master winner in history. That is already common news today: the influence of training with very powerful computers has produced a list of 8-year-old children who knock down great teachers.

But in 1997 only multinationals like IBM could have access to analysis modules like Deep Blue (executioner of Gari Kasparov that same year) that calculate millions of plays per second and run today on a mobile phone. Jones was a child prodigy schooled in human chess, not silicon chess. That is why he dared, in 2016, to make a high-risk, long-term queen sacrifice that would not work against a machine, but would work against a flesh-and-blood rival. The bravery with which Jones delights in that video reminds us that, in chess, beauty is the daughter of error. For this reason, games between humans will make fans vibrate forever and ever.

2024-02-26 17:00:00
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