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When it was the human brain and not the engine which found the novelties!

1,182 views · Published 11 January 2018 · 25:06 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: ChessBase India · 2018 · Sports

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Andrei Deviatkin​ was an extremely strong Russian grandmaster. His highest Elo at one point of time was 2608. He loved chess and worked tremendously hard on it. But then the computers arrived. With strong engines, it became a game of whose engine was better, who could memorise the opening theory and who could make the best use of technology. 

Deviatkin's motivation began to die down and chess was no longer as much fun as it used to be. Currently his Elo is 2471.

In this video we ask Andrei to take us back in the memory lane to the time when he was an IM, but a very strong one with a rating of 2531. He was playing against Ernesto Inarkiev​ and played some beautiful bit of chess with the black pieces to win the game. Noteworthy is the fact how he found novelty in the opening without using an engine. Learn from this great player.

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