Vishwanathan Anand

15-th World Chess Champion

“The younger generation don’t have fundamental principles. We used to grow up thinking ‘you had to put your pawns here, and you had to put your pieces like this, and this was a healthy structure, and this was a bad’ I mean it was quite judgmental. And what the computer has shown us is that all these judgments are probabilistic. They work some of the time, they don’t work some of the time, and you have to kind of not be too dogmatic.

The current generation is, I think, almost non-dogmatic. It’s very hard to find something that they think which might be wrong. It’s so dependent, they’re taking it from the computer and just trying to assimilate what it is saying because it is right.”