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Vishy Anand on Staying in the Game (Ep. 188)

Vishy Anand 谈留在游戏中 (Ep. 188)
2023-08-07 | 官方页面 YouTube
TYLER COWEN

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Conversations with Tyler.

大家好,欢迎回到《与泰勒对话》。

Today I’m honored to be in Chennai with Vishy Anand, five-time world chess champion and one of the greatest chess players of all time.

今天,我很荣幸能与五届世界国际象棋冠军、有史以来最伟大的国际象棋棋手之一维希·阿南德一起在钦奈。

Vishy, welcome.

维希,欢迎。

VISHY ANAND

Thank you, Tyler.

谢谢你,泰勒。

COWEN

Let’s go back in time — 1991 — you’re playing in Reggio Emilia, arguably the strongest tournament of all time when it happened.

让我们回到过去 — 1991 — 你正在雷焦艾米利亚比赛,这可以说是有史以来最强的锦标赛发生的时候。

Karpov is there, Kasparov, even Polugaevsky shows up, and you win.

卡尔波夫在那里,卡斯帕罗夫,甚至波卢加耶夫斯基也出现了,你就赢了。

What was the change in you that enabled you to be in a position to win that tournament?

你身上发生了什么变化,使你能够赢得那场比赛?

ANAND

I think it’s just the work I’d been doing had accumulated, and I’d hit a certain level.

我想这只是我一直在做的工作积累起来的,我已经达到了一定的水平。

To give you some background, I qualified for the Candidates for the first time in the Interzonal in Manila in 1990, about July 1990.

为了向您提供一些背景信息,我于 1990 年(大约 1990 年 7 月)在马尼拉首次获得了跨区候选人资格。

Reggio Emilia was a year and a half later.

一年半后,雷焦艾米利亚(Reggio Emilia)出现了。

For the first time, I started to work seriously on my openings.

我第一次开始认真地研究我的空缺。

I got together some trainers.

我召集了一些教练。

This training will look very funny to modern eyes, but back then it was considered, let’s say —

这种训练在现代人看来会很滑稽,但当时人们认为,比方说 ——

COWEN

What is it they would do to you?

他们会对你做什么?

ANAND

Well, we would actually sit on the board and move the pieces ourselves.

好吧,我们实际上会坐在棋盘上,自己移动棋子。

For the first time, they systematically went down a list and said, “If you’re going to play this opening, all these things have to be checked.” I had not thought like that before.

他们第一次系统地列出了一份清单并说:“如果你要玩这个开局,所有这些事情都必须检查。”我以前没有这样想过。

My thing was, I’ll check the top two things, and I’ll figure out the rest, which was not as silly as it sounds today because back in the day, that’s how you played chess.

我的事情是,我会检查最重要的两件事,然后我会弄清楚其余的事情,这并不像今天听起来那么愚蠢,因为在过去,这就是你下棋的方式。

Computers couldn’t play chess at all at that stage.

那个阶段计算机根本不会下国际象棋。

For the first time, I thought in an organized way.

我第一次以一种有组织的方式思考。

I started to work.

我开始工作了。

There are people opposite you who contradict you, who are strong enough to contradict you and tell you, “No, actually, I think you’re wrong here.

你对面的人会反驳你,他们的力量足以反驳你,并告诉你:“不,实际上,我认为你错了。

You should think of this move,” or “This is better, that is better,” or “I once did this,” and what have you.

你应该想到这个举动”,或者“这个更好,那个更好”,或者“我曾经这样做过”,以及你有什么。

You start to work like that on a systematic basis.

你开始系统地进行这样的工作。

I played my first Candidates match in January in Chennai against Dreev, and suddenly, I was paired against Karpov for the quarterfinals.

一月份,我在钦奈对阵德雷夫,参加了我的第一场候选人赛,突然间,我在四分之一决赛中与卡尔波夫配对。

That was going to be in Brussels in July, roughly a year since I qualified.

那是七月在布鲁塞尔举行的,距我获得资格大约一年了。

Again, I worked with Gurevich, who had been on Kasparov’s team, and so on.

我再次与古列维奇合作,他曾是卡斯帕罗夫团队的成员,等等。

I started working with him a lot.

我开始经常和他一起工作。

I had played Linares.

我玩过利纳雷斯。

I had played Munich.

我曾经踢过慕尼黑比赛。

So, I’d suddenly started to play very strong tournaments and face this opposition regularly.

所以,我突然开始参加非常强大的比赛并经常面对这样的对手。

Gurevich taught me lots of things.

古列维奇教会了我很多东西。

First of all, a lot of personal insights about Karpov.

首先,关于卡尔波夫的很多个人见解。

He always used to say when Karpov is fidgeting with his lips like this, it means he’s calculating, but he’s not quite sure what’s happening, and he’s nervous.

他总是说,当卡尔波夫像这样摆弄嘴唇时,这意味着他在算计,但他不太确定发生了什么,而且他很紧张。

Then you look for it, and you actually see the man fidgeting with his lips, and then you realize that his moves are shaky.

然后你去找去,果然看到那人在嘴唇上扭动着,然后才发现他的动作有些颤抖。

It opens your eyes to the practical element.

它让你看到实用的元素。

We worked very hard.

我们工作非常努力。

Again, I think the level with him was one notch higher than what I had worked to with Van der Wiel and Hellers.

再说一遍,我认为与他合作的水平比我与范德维尔和海勒斯合作的水平高了一个档次。

One funny story.

一个有趣的故事。

The first day, I asked Gurevich if I could watch — there was a Star Trek going on in the background.

第一天,我问古列维奇是否可以观看——背景中有一部《星际迷航》正在上演。

Would he mind if I watched that while we work?

如果我在工作时看这个,他会介意吗?

He said no. He said, “If you want to watch Star Trek, I’ll go to my house.

他说不。他说:“如果你想看《星际迷航》,我就去我家。

You call me when it’s over.

结束后你给我打电话。

I’ll come back, but we’re not doing two things at the same time.”

我会回来,但我们不会同时做两件事。”

COWEN

This was classic Star Trek.

这是经典的《星际迷航》。

ANAND

Yes.

是的。

I’m talking ’91, so yes.

我说的是 91 年,所以是的。

I said, “Okay, okay, then forget it.

我说:“好吧好吧,那就算了。”

I’ll switch it off.” I was annoyed.

我会把它关掉的。”我很生气。

I didn’t see why I couldn’t have that running in the background, which just shows the gulf in professionalism, if you like.

我不明白为什么我不能在后台运行它,如果你愿意的话,这只会显示专业精神的鸿沟。

It was like that.

就是这样。

His thing was very, very systematic.

他的事情非常非常系统化。

During the match with Karpov, we would adjourn games.

在与卡尔波夫的比赛​​中,我们会暂停比赛。

That, again, was still happening then.

那时,这种事仍然在发生。

We’d adjourn games, which means that you seal your 40th or your 60th move, you continue another day.

我们会暂停比赛,这意味着你完成了第 40 步或第 60 步棋后,你可以改天继续。

Gurevich would sit and analyze for me.

古列维奇会坐下来为我分析。

We would discuss the position briefly, then he’d tell me, “No, you go to sleep.

我们会简短地讨论一下这个职位,然后他会告诉我,“不,你去睡觉吧。

I’m going to spend the whole night working.” He would work till 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, checking everything alone.

我要整晚都在工作。”他会工作到凌晨3:00或4:00,独自检查一切。

The next morning when I woke up, he would brief me on everything.

第二天早上,当我醒来时,他会向我介绍一切。

Then you suddenly realize, “Oh my God, how many things he found while he was working on this position.”

然后你突然意识到,“天哪,他在这个岗位上发现了多少东西。”

Mine was very scatterbrained.

我的头脑非常分散。

Because I was an intuitive player, I often couldn’t explain what it is I was going to do.

因为我是一个直觉型玩家,所以我经常无法解释我要做什么。

I would find the correct move very often, but if you pin me as to why, I didn’t really know.

我经常会找到正确的举动,但如果你问我为什么,我真的不知道。

It was just the way I played chess.

这就是我下棋的方式。

This kind of thing.

这种事。

I played a couple of tournaments between Brussels and Reggio Emilia.

我在布鲁塞尔和雷焦艾米利亚之间参加了几场比赛。

Specifically, I played in Tilburg.

具体来说,我在蒂尔堡踢球。

I beat Kasparov.

我打败了卡斯帕罗夫。

I beat Karpov.

我打败了卡尔波夫。

I beat Kamsky.

我打败了卡姆斯基。

I beat Korchnoi.

我打败了科尔奇诺伊。

I beat Short, but I also lost to Kasparov.

我击败了肖特,但也输给了卡斯帕罗夫。

I lost to Kamsky.

我输给了甘姆斯基。

I lost to Karpov.

我输给了卡尔波夫。

Some of these losses were just ridiculous —

其中一些损失简直是荒谬的 ——

COWEN

Because you were playing too intuitively?

因为你玩得太凭直觉了?

ANAND

Because I was volatile.

因为我情绪不稳定。

Some positions I would get excited and think that things are going very well, and I’d start playing fast, miss a few things, then come back.

有些位置我会很兴奋,认为事情进展得很顺利,我会开始打得很快,错过一些事情,然后回来。

I stepped over the mark.

我跨过了标记。

This, that, all the things.

这,那,所有的事情。

What I think made the difference was, I was suddenly facing people who didn’t resign the game very quickly, who didn’t collapse, especially Karpov.

我认为与众不同的是,我突然面对的是那些没有很快退出比赛、没有崩溃的人,尤其是卡尔波夫。

Even in the worst positions, he would continue resisting.

即使处于最恶劣的境地,他也会继续反抗。

That’s an art you learn, and then you realize this point is not going to come easily.

这是你学习的一门艺术,然后你意识到这一点并不容易实现。

I’ve got to push again and push harder.

我必须再次推动并更加努力。

It’s one thing training for this, but it’s not real.

为此进行训练是一回事,但这不是真实的。

The second thing is actually facing it over the board, and then it becomes real in a way.

第二件事实际上是在棋盘上面对它,然后它在某种程度上变得真实。

All these things combined.

所有这些事情加在一起。

Then in Reggio Emilia, I won my first game with Salov.

然后在雷焦艾米利亚,我和萨洛夫一起赢得了第一场比赛。

I suddenly thought, “I actually played that game quite well.

我突然想:其实这个游戏我玩得还不错。

I don’t know what happened, but I played that game quite well.” Then I beat Kasparov in the second round.

我不知道发生了什么,但我打得很好。”然后我在第二轮击败了卡斯帕罗夫。

Again, it seemed pretty easy, and I’d already beaten him twice within two months.

再说一次,这似乎很容易,而且我在两个月内已经打败了他两次。

Then I lost to Gurevich.

然后我输给了古列维奇。

COWEN

Your trainer, yes.

你的教练,是的。

ANAND

My trainer.

我的教练。

COWEN

Always a danger.

总是有危险。

ANAND

He seemed to know — he lured me into a totally harmless position and then waited for me to get impatient.

他似乎知道——他把我引诱到一个完全无害的位置,然后等着我不耐烦。

Literally, someone who has good psychological insight into you.

从字面上看,就是对你有很好的心理洞察力的人。

That was annoying.

这很烦人。

Then I got incredibly lucky against Polugaevsky.

然后我非常幸运地对阵波卢加耶夫斯基。

Then a couple of draws against Gelfand and Ivanchuk, amongst others.

然后与格尔凡德和伊万丘克等人进行了几次平局。

In the last round, I beat Beliavsky, still in a natural way.

上一轮我还是以自然的方式击败了别利亚夫斯基。

It’s not like I’d gone that far from my roots, but it happened.

虽然我并没有离开我的根源那么远,但它确实发生了。

Kasparov drew with Khalifman, Karpov drew with Gelfand, and I realized I’m in first place.

卡斯帕罗夫和哈利夫曼打平,卡尔波夫和格尔凡德打平,我意识到我是第一名。

That was a very nice surprise.

这是一个非常好的惊喜。

I remember faxing a friend, just, “I won, I won, I won.” I wrote it three times and faxed it to him.

我记得给朋友发传真时,只是说:“我赢了,我赢了,我赢了。”我写了三遍然后传真给他。

I don’t know if everyone in the audience will know what a fax machine is, but anyway —

不知道在座的各位是否都知道什么是传真机,但无论如何 ——

COWEN

Some of us remember.

我们中的一些人还记得。

ANAND

I did that, and I was very excited and so on.

我做到了,我非常兴奋等等。

I felt stronger.

我感觉更坚强了。

I realized that the same people who caused me a lot of problems earlier in the year — I was at least able to deal with them.

我意识到,那些在今年早些时候给我带来很多问题的人 —— 我至少能够处理他们。

It’s a work in progress because they also constantly work at self-improvement and so on, but at least I felt I could confront them on equal terms.

这是一项正在进行的工作,因为他们也在不断地努力自我完善等等,但至少我觉得我可以平等地面对他们。

On facing Ivanchuk

面对伊万丘克

COWEN

If you were playing Ivanchuk back then, when he was at his peak, younger, how would you approach that psychologically?

如果你当时扮演伊万丘克,当时他正处于巅峰,更年轻,你会在心理上如何应对?

Because he’s a very dangerous opponent, right?

因为他是一个非常危险的对手,对吧?

If he’s in the right mood, he can whip Magnus at five-minute chess.

如果他心情好的话,他可以在五分钟的国际象棋中击败马格努斯。

ANAND

He is very dangerous, but there are some patterns.

他很危险,但也有一些规律。

Actually, we met in the World Cadet, the Under-16 Championships in 1984.

事实上,我们是在 1984 年的世界少年锦标赛、16 岁以下锦标赛上认识的。

Then we kept bumping into each other.

然后我们就一直互相碰撞。

Actually, my initial score with him was quite positive.

事实上,我最初对他的评价是相当积极的。

I think I’ve never had a negative score against him, but quite often, in painful moments, moments when I wasn’t expecting any danger from him, that’s when he would beat me.

我想我在对阵他的比赛中从来没有负分,但很多时候,在痛苦的时刻,在我没有预料到他会带来任何危险的时刻,他就会击败我。

There’s a clear pattern.

有一个清晰的模式。

I wouldn’t call it underestimation, but you feel you’re wallowing in your strength, and you think it’ll probably work out fine; there’s no need to worry about all these things.

我不会称之为低估,但你会觉得自己沉浸在自己的力量中,并且认为这可能会很好;无需担心所有这些事情。

And then, that’s when he would beat you.

然后,那时他就会打败你。

When you’re fully concentrated, his score is not so good.

当你全神贯注的时候,他的成绩就不太好。

The solution suggested itself, but he was a tricky opponent all my life.

解决方案自然而然地出现了,但他一直是我一生中最棘手的对手。

The thing is, because I started out with an early plus score against him, he saw it as a stiff rivalry.

问题是,因为我一开始就以高分对阵他,所以他认为这是一场激烈的竞争。

Initially, I just thought, “Well, he’s Soviet, so he must be better than me.” I didn’t feel any rivalry.

最初,我只是想,“好吧,他是苏联人,所以他一定比我强。”我没有感觉到任何竞争。

Then even when I got better than him, I didn’t switch into this, that he’s my rival.

然后,即使我比他更好,我也没有变成这样,他是我的对手。

I kept thinking, “Well, we’re all rivals, but we’re all facing how to get to the World Championship,” but he felt it was a rivalry much more.

我一直在想,“好吧,我们都是竞争对手,但我们都面临着如何进入世界冠军的问题”,但他觉得这更像是一场竞争。

Then the next year, Luis Rentero, the organizer of Linares — he organized a friendly match between Ivanchuk and me, and I beat him there.

第二年,利纳雷斯队的组织者路易斯·伦特罗——他组织了一场伊万丘克和我之间的友谊赛,我在那里击败了他。

Slightly undeserved, in the sense of I didn’t get good positions, but I won them anyway.

有点不值得,因为我没有得到好的位置,但无论如何我还是赢得了它们。

But that’s chess.

但这就是国际象棋。

I think it bugged him a lot.

我认为这让他很烦恼。

For many years, he would ignore the rest of the tournament.

多年来,他都会忽略锦标赛的其余部分。

He almost couldn’t concentrate against the others.

他几乎无法集中精力对付其他人。

Then when he came against me, you knew he’d been waiting the whole week for this one game.

然后当他对阵我时,你知道他为了这场比赛已经等了整整一个星期了。

It was annoying to have such a mark on your back.

背上有这样的印记真烦人。

There’s this one guy who is just thinking of you all the time, while you’re thinking of all your opponents in a very organized fashion.

有一个人一直在想着你,而你则以一种非常有组织的方式思考你的所有对手。

Anyway, many years later, in Tata Steel in 2003, in Wijk aan Zee, I realized that he wasn’t even concerned about me anymore.

不管怎样,很多年后,2003 年在塔塔钢铁公司,在滨海韦克,我意识到他甚至不再关心我了。

Now, the new mark for him was Ponomariov, who had just beaten him.

现在,他的新目标是刚刚击败他的波诺马里奥夫。

I felt relieved: “Okay, he can have Chucky.” Ivanchuk’s level can vary enormously.

我松了口气:“好吧,他可以拥有张策了。”伊万丘克的水平差异很大。

I think that was the tricky part in playing him, that you had to focus a bit harder than others.

我认为这是扮演他的棘手部分,你必须比其他人更加集中注意力。

You couldn’t get by on just natural moves because he could be playing genius moves, or his level could drop a lot.

你不能只靠自然的招式,因为他可能会打出天才的招式,或者他的水平可能会下降很多。

He’s even more vulnerable, I think, psychologically than many others.

我认为,他在心理上比其他许多人更加脆弱。

If he’s not in the right frame of mind, his level can plummet.

如果他的心态不正确,他的水平就会直线下降。

Equally, he can suddenly motivate himself to do great things.

同样,他可以突然激励自己去做伟大的事情。

The hardest problem, even, is that he looks totally distracted during the game.

最困难的问题是,他在比赛中看起来完全心不在焉。

That also lulls you into a false sense of security.

这也会让你陷入一种虚假的安全感。

With him, it’s always psychology, watching his face — things like that — which mattered more than the actual moves.

对他来说,总是心理作用,观察他的脸——诸如此类的事情——比实际的动作更重要。

On the 1995 game against Kasparov

1995 年对阵卡斯帕罗夫的比赛

COWEN

1995, to fast-forward, you beat Kasparov at the Intel Grand Prix.

快进到 1995 年,您在英特尔大奖赛上击败了卡斯帕罗夫。

Legend has it, you spent only 10 minutes on your moves, and this was a slow classical game.

传说,你只花了 10 分钟的时间来走棋,这是一款缓慢的经典游戏。

How did you manage that?

你是怎么做到的?

Why only 10 minutes?

为什么只有10分钟?

ANAND

It was actually a rapid game.

这实际上是一场快速的比赛。

COWEN

It was a rapid game?

这是一场快速的比赛吗?

ANAND

It was a rapid game.

这是一场快速的比赛。

We played it in Moscow.

我们在莫斯科玩过。

I found myself playing against him.

我发现自己在和他对抗。

It was a morning session.

这是一个上午的会议。

We had an evening session.

我们开了一个晚上的会议。

Both matches were on the same day.

两场比赛都在同一天进行。

I just wanted to play something relatively harmless, so I played some solid setup.

我只是想玩一些相对无害的东西,所以我玩了一些扎实的设置。

I thought, “Today is not the day for the theoretical battle.

我想:“今天不是理论斗争的日子。

I’ll just play something simple.”

我只会玩一些简单的东西。”

COWEN

Yes, queen d4 against the Sicilian.

是的,d4女王对阵西西里岛。

ANAND

Queen takes d4 came back, and I will just do something sensible, and we’ll worry about this another day.

Queen 拿 d4 回来,我会做一些明智的事情,我们改天再担心这个。

Theoretical battle another day.

改天再进行理论战斗。

One of the things about Garry.

关于加里的事情之一。

It doesn’t come up very often — obviously, the results are very favorable to him, but over a long enough career, you notice it often enough.

它并不经常出现——显然,结果对他非常有利,但在足够长的职业生涯中,你会经常注意到它。

You give him a position where he’s not very active, and he thinks he has to lash out.

你给他一个不太活跃的位置,他认为他必须猛烈抨击。

This has nothing to do with his understanding of chess.

这与他对棋的理解无关。

It’s simply he has this urge to lash out and be tactical.

只是他有强烈的攻击欲和战术冲动。

For instance, Kramnik is lethal with him because he knew how to get the kind of positions where Garry would lash out, and then he would punish it.

例如,克拉姆尼克对他来说是致命的,因为他知道如何获得加里会猛烈抨击的位置,然后他会惩罚它。

My style didn’t allow me to punish him quite so well, so I’ve exploited it on fewer occasions.

我的风格不允许我很好地惩罚他,所以我很少利用它。

But that one went like a dream in Moscow.

但那件事在莫斯科就像一场梦。

It made up for losing to him a little bit earlier in the month in Riga, so I was happy to win that against him.

这弥补了本月早些时候在里加输给他的损失,所以我很高兴能战胜他。

Then I went and lost to Ivanchuk in the final, who did his typical thing of suddenly realizing his whole life depended on this one game.

然后我在决赛中输给了伊万丘克,他做了他典型的事情,突然意识到他的一生都取决于这场比赛。

I lost to him and then played the match against Garry a few months later.

我输给了他,几个月后又与加里进行了比赛。

On the match against Kramnik

关于对阵克拉姆尼克的比赛

COWEN

Speaking of Kramnik — in your match against Kramnik, you played 1.d4 a number of times, which was surprising.

说到克拉姆尼克 ——在你与克拉姆尼克的比赛中,你多次使用1.d4,这令人惊讶。

Why didn’t he respond with a more hyper-theoretical line, like try the Grünfeld, say, and try to catch you unprepared?

他为什么不以更超理论的路线来回应,比如尝试一下格林菲尔德,并试图让你措手不及?

Because usually, you’ve played e4 in your career, at least up till then.

因为通常情况下,你在职业生涯中都玩过 e4,至少到目前为止是这样。

ANAND

That’s right.

这是正确的。

What had changed in the meantime — one is computers, which meant that even a player who didn’t have a lot of experience in an opening might simply have good computer moves.

与此同时,发生了变化的是计算机,这意味着即使是一个在开局中没有太多经验的玩家也可能拥有良好的计算机走法。

If you have good computer moves — you understand them well, and you play them where they’re supposed to be played — then understanding cannot make up for it.

如果你有很好的计算机动作 —— 你很好地理解它们,并且你在应该下的地方下棋 ——那么理解是无法弥补的。

The computer evaluation gap is just too strong.

计算机评估差距太大了。

Imagine that the computer says, “This move and you are plus one.” I’ll take that against anyone.

想象一下计算机说:“这一步你就加一了。”我会反对任何人。

I’ll take that even against a specialist, because those are pretty good odds.

即使是与专家对抗,我也会采取这一点,因为这是相当不错的胜算。

In fact, it is one of the things which has leveled preparation, that a club player who knows one opening well can play against a top grandmaster in that opening.

事实上,熟悉一个开局的俱乐部球员可以在该开局中与顶级大师对战,这是水平准备的事情之一。

The top grandmaster’s insight has to be, take a look at the club player, gauge what work he might have done, have a sense of what areas he specializes in, then avoid them at all costs because that’s the best strategy for success.

顶级特级大师的洞察力必须是,看看俱乐部球员,评估他可能做了什么工作,了解他擅长哪些领域,然后不惜一切代价避免他们,因为这是成功的最佳策略。

You avoid the club player’s preparation.

你避免了俱乐部球员的准备工作。

It doesn’t matter if you’re playing it well or bad; the difference in level will show.

不管你弹得好还是坏,都没关系。水平的差异就会显现出来。

If you play into anything where the computer could have had a guiding hand, you have pretty bad luck.

如果你参与任何计算机可以指导的事情,那么你的运气就很糟糕。

Anyway, the thing with Kramnik was that I had a team.

不管怎样,克拉姆尼克的问题是我有一个团队。

All of them were d4 specialists.

他们都是d4专家。

We had eight months during which I could have trained a lot.

我们有八个月的时间我可以进行很多训练。

We trained a lot on d4.

我们在 d4 上进行了很多训练。

We found interesting ideas.

我们发现了有趣的想法。

I played training games, again, to make up for the lack of understanding.

我又打了训练赛,以弥补理解上的不足。

Play training games, check it again with the computer, go deeper and deeper, try to understand hidden nuances, and so on.

玩训练游戏,用电脑再次检查,越来越深入,尝试理解隐藏的细微差别,等等。

I was pretty confident that we had lines prepared against the Grünfeld and King’s Indian.

我非常有信心我们已经准备好对抗格林菲尔德和国王印第安人的阵容。

In fact, I had a complete d4 repertoire, start to finish.

事实上,我有一套完整的 d4 曲目,从头到尾。

Even the most obscure lines, the job to my second was, “Give me a line that doesn’t lose and I don’t look embarrassing.

即使是最晦涩的台词,我的第二个任务也是,“给我一句不会失败的台词,这样我就不会显得尴尬。

I can make a few moves, come back, and then we can go drill deeper if he does something unexpected.”

我可以采取一些行动,然后回来,如果他做出意想不到的事情,我们就可以深入研究。”

It wouldn’t have been that easy, but if he had the confidence, it wasn’t a bad strategy to try.

虽然没那么容易,但如果他有信心,尝试一下这也不失为一个好策略。

He could have done it.

他本可以做到的。

Not because he thinks he’s going to outplay me, but because he thinks, “Well, I know this just as well as you.

不是因为他认为他会打败我,而是因为他想,“好吧,我和你一样了解这一点。

Let’s see what you’ve got.” It’s that kind of thing.

让我们看看你有什么。”就是这样的事情。

It’s not quite as easy.

这并不那么容易。

In fact, I faced this often myself in reverse, that Kramnik used to play e4 suddenly a lot against me.

事实上,我自己也经常遇到这样的情况,克拉姆尼克经常突然对我玩e4。

It’s very nice to say I have more experience than him, but where should I strike?

可以说我比他更有经验,但是我应该从哪里下手呢?

Which is the area he is likely to be weakened?

他可能会削弱哪个领域?

That’s not easy to pick out.

这并不容易挑选出来。

COWEN

Two of your wins with black in that match are from the Semi-Slav.

那场比赛中你用黑色获胜的两场比赛都是来自半斯拉夫人。

He let you get very tactical positions.

他让你获得非常战术性的位置。

Why would he make that kind of mistake?

他为什么会犯这样的错误呢?

ANAND

That is very strange.

这很奇怪。

I would have to say he took it personally.

我不得不说他认为这是针对个人的。

He took this opening personally.

他个人认为这个机会。

He just said, “This opening — my understanding of chess, everything I believe in chess on the chess board tells me I’m better here,” so he kept going back to it.

他只是说,“这个开场白——我对国际象棋的理解,棋盘上我对国际象棋的所有信念都告诉我,我在这里做得更好,”所以他不断地回到这个话题。

First time, it can happen.

第一次,它可能会发生。

He plays a main line, he thinks he’s well prepared.

他打主线,他认为自己已经做好了充分的准备。

Then I have this slightly unusual line that I prepared at depth.

然后我就有了这条稍微不寻常的台词,我是在深度上准备的。

It goes bad.

它会变坏。

But game five, I think he took it personally.

但第五场比赛,我认为他个人认为。

By game eight, I had moved on because, allowing for everything, we knew that his sense that white was better was correct.

到了第八场比赛,我继续前进,因为考虑到一切因素,我们知道他认为白色更好的感觉是正确的。

We had run as far with this as we should.

我们已经尽力了。

We went to our second opening, which is the Vienna, and we went with that.

我们去了第二个开业的地方,即维也纳,我们就去了。

It’s really only game five.

这实际上只是第五场比赛。

He took it personally, he came in, but once again, we had outstanding prep.

他认为这是针对个人的,他进来了,但我们再一次做好了出色的准备。

And by a miracle, my Polish trainer, Wojtaszek — we have this hurried conference from 2:00 to 2:25 or something, where they just brush me up on everything and last-minute stuff and everything.

奇迹的是,我的波兰教练 Wojtaszek ——我们从 2:00 到 2:25 左右召开了一次匆忙的会议,他们只是向我重温了所有事情以及最后一刻的事情等等。

At about 2:20, Radek said, “Look, there’s one thing I want to show you.

大约 2 点 20 分,拉德克说:“看,我想给你看一件事。

Sit down.” I sat down.

坐下吧。”我坐了下来。

He showed me this one line, exactly which happened in game five.

他向我展示了这句话,正是第五场比赛中发生的事情。

He said, “This is a terrible line.

他说:“这是一条可怕的线。

I’ve spent all night on it.

我花了一整夜的时间。

I finally found an emergency solution, emergency parachute.

我终于找到了紧急解决办法,紧急降落伞。

You play a rook c5 at this point.

此时你扮演车 c5。

The rook is active on this rank.

该车在此级别上很活跃。

I’ve checked it, it doesn’t lose on the spot.

我查了一下,没有当场就丢了。

Go.” His job was, “There’s no way we can cover everything in chess.

走吧。”他的工作是,“我们不可能涵盖国际象棋的所有内容。

I’m giving you this position for dummies.

我给你这个傻瓜职位。

This is all you need to know, and you’ll have to figure out the rest on your own.” I said, “Okay.”

这就是你需要知道的一切,剩下的就得你自己想办法了。”我说:“好吧。”

When I sat at the board and I had this chance to play rook c5, I thought, “Thank God he briefed me on this at this point.” So, there’s some luck as well.

当我坐在棋盘上并有机会玩 c5 车时,我想,“感谢上帝,他在这一点上向我介绍了这一点。”所以,也有一些运气。

I knew every move I made.

我知道我所做的每一个动作。

I said, “Rook c5 — I don’t trust this position well, but Radek told me it works.

我说,“Rook c5 — 我不太相信这个位置,但拉德克告诉我它有效。

That’s good enough,” and so on.

这就足够了,”等等。

We went with that, and then he blundered.

我们同意了,然后他犯了错误。

But I was already in a very good situation.

但我已经处于一个非常好的境地了。

I knew what I had to do.

我知道我必须做什么。

I knew I was where I was supposed to be, and I knew that I wasn’t worse, which is enough to take to the board.

我知道我已经在我应该在的地方,而且我知道我并不更糟,这足以向董事会提出要求。

COWEN

Your match against Topalov — you had help from Kramnik, Kasparov, Carlsen.

你对阵托帕洛夫的比赛——你得到了克拉姆尼克、卡斯帕罗夫、卡尔森的帮助。

How did they each help you differently?

他们对你的帮助有何不同?

And how does that reflect something about them as chess players?

这如何反映了他们作为国际象棋棋手的一些特质?

ANAND

Carlsen — he had already been my sparring partner before the match with Kramnik, and we repeated that, literally.

卡尔森——在与克拉姆尼克的比赛之前,他已经是我的陪练伙伴了,我们确实重复了这一点。

He came over; we played three days of blitz, five-minute chess.

他过来了;我们玩了三天的闪电战、五分钟的国际象棋。

The idea was I would select all the positions that I was going to use and play it against him.

我的想法是我会选择我要使用的所有位置并与他比赛。

We would not tell Carlsen what we were going to play.

我们不会告诉卡尔森我们要玩什么。

We were using Carlsen’s strength as a practical player and saying, “If I surprise you with this, let me see how you react.

我们利用卡尔森作为一名实用型球员的优势,并说:“如果我的做法让你感到惊讶,让我看看你的反应如何。

Maybe you’ve faced this before.

也许你以前遇到过这个问题。

Let me see how you react, and try to play against that.”

让我看看你的反应如何,然后尝试对抗它。”

Because I thought Carlsen is of the level of Kramnik and Topalov, so playing against him gives me a good sense of how they’ll play, how the games will materialize, and so on.

因为我认为卡尔森具有克拉姆尼克和托帕洛夫的水平,所以与他交手让我很好地了解他们将如何比赛,比赛将如何实现,等等。

He did that both times.

他两次都这么做了。

He didn’t help much during the match, I think once in a while.

我认为他在比赛中并没有提供太多帮助。

Nielsen was obviously in touch with him.

尼尔森显然与他保持着联系。

They would chat on Skype or whatever, and he might give an impression, but it wasn’t more than that.

他们会通过 Skype 或其他方式聊天,他可能会给人留下印象,但仅此而已。

Kasparov would call in a couple of times.

卡斯帕罗夫会打来几次电话。

He gave me some of his notes in specific openings.

他在特定的开头给了我一些他的笔记。

He said, “Look, they’re outdated, but for what it’s worth, here they are.

他说:“看,它们已经过时了,但不管怎样,它们就在这里。

You can check them with modern analysis and so on.

你可以用现代分析等来检查它们。

That’s fine.”

那就好。”

Kramnik was the heaviest.

克拉姆尼克是最重的。

We had come to the conclusion that Kramnik’s approach against Topalov hadn’t been a bad approach.

我们得出的结论是,克拉姆尼克对付托帕洛夫的方法并不是一个糟糕的方法。

We were copying the Catalan, what we call the Elista variation of the Slav Defense, and we were copying many aspects of how he played that match.

我们复制了加泰罗尼亚语,我们称之为斯拉夫防守的埃利斯塔变体,我们复制了他在那场比赛中打球方式的许多方面。

COWEN

Because he doesn’t like to be passive, right?

因为他不喜欢被动,对吗?

Is that how you think about it?

你是这么想的吗?

ANAND

Topalov?

托帕洛夫?

COWEN

Yes.

是的。

ANAND

Topalov doesn’t like to be passive, but he’s also much more of a .

托帕洛夫不喜欢被动,但他也更主动。

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。

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。

He actually can play positional chess incredibly well, but over the board, he tends to lapse in this area.

事实上,他的走位棋下得非常好,但总的来说,他在这方面往往会出现失误。

The gap between his positional play and his sharp openings that he’s really comfortable with is huge.

他的位置打法和他真正熟悉的犀利空位之间的差距是巨大的。

So, stylistically he’s more limited.

所以,从风格上来说,他的局限性更大。

The idea was, you are a better natural player than me, so you should try to steer the game through to Slav’s more harmless — which is how we came under the Kramnik approach — more harmless waters.

这个想法是,你是一个比我更好的天生玩家,所以你应该尝试将游戏引导到斯拉夫更无害的地方——这就是我们采用克拉姆尼克方法的方式——更无害的水域。

Play sensible chess, and don’t get into forced lines that much, and you’ll probably have the easier time of it.

下合理的棋,不要过多地陷入强迫性的局面,你可能会过得更轻松。

More of a philosophical thing.

更多的是哲学上的事情。

Kramnik called Kasimdzhanov after the fourth game, and he said, “I’m flattered that you are trying to copy my openings, but you’re doing it very badly.

第四局结束后,克拉姆尼克给卡西姆扎诺夫打了电话,他说:“我很荣幸你试图复制我的开局,但你做得非常糟糕。

Can I help?” Literally, that’s what he said, which is the funniest story.

我可以帮忙吗?从字面上看,这就是他所说的,这是最有趣的故事。

We said, “Of course you can help.” I was amazed how dedicated he was, since he was just doing this on his own thing.

我们说:“你当然可以帮忙。”我很惊讶他如此专注,因为他只是在做自己的事情。

He could have easily said, “I’ll help you for an hour.” I would accept it.

他本可以轻松地说:“我帮你一个小时。”我会接受的。

“I’ll look at your notes for 10 minutes.” I would accept it.

“我会看你的笔记 10 分钟。”我会接受的。

There were days he sat with the team till 5:00 in the morning, working all night.

有时他会和团队一起工作到凌晨 5:00,通宵工作。

He had just gone to Baku to play an event.

他刚刚去巴库参加一场比赛。

He played there.

他在那里打球。

Then at night, he would work with us.

然后到了晚上,他就会和我们一起工作。

For the team, it was great because we were getting his insights on his opening.

对于团队来说,这很棒,因为我们得到了他对开局的见解。

We realized there was so much we had missed.

我们意识到我们错过了太多。

Every game, he basically became my fifth second from game five till the final game.

每场比赛,从第五场比赛到最后一场比赛,他基本上都是我的第五秒。

I couldn’t possibly thank him enough.

我对他感激不尽。

I’d just beaten him two years ago in the match.

两年前我刚刚在比赛中击败了他。

Again, it was his ability to put that aside that impressed me.

再次,让我印象深刻的是他抛开这些的能力。

We had spoken a little bit the previous year about his newborn daughter, and it broke the ice, but I was still feeling awkward.

去年我们曾谈论过他刚出生的女儿,这打破了僵局,但我仍然感到尴尬。

I thought it might take a bit of time for both of us to move on, but in fact, he seemed to be able to take this very well.

我以为我们俩可能需要一些时间才能继续前进,但事实上,他似乎能够很好地接受这一点。

So, they all helped me in different ways.

所以,他们都以不同的方式帮助了我。

It was nice.

很好。

When you get that kind of feedback, it of course gives you a hell of a lot of confidence.

当你得到这样的反馈时,它当然会给你很大的信心。

On the 2013 game against Aronian

2013 年对阵阿罗尼安的比赛

COWEN

In your 2013 game against Aronian at Tata, when you played 15 for black bishop to c5, all the ensuing combinations and tactics — how much of that were you seeing in advance?

2013年你在塔塔对阵阿罗尼安的比赛中,当你为黑主教打出15到c5时,所有随后的组合和战术 ——你提前看到了多少?

ANAND

That’s literally this position, right ?

这实际上就是这个位置,对吧?

COWEN

Yes, and you played bishop c5.

是的,你玩的是主教c5。

ANAND

I played bishop c5.

我玩的是主教c5。

I’ll tell you, I spent 25 minutes in this position because I couldn’t remember a thing.

我告诉你,我在这个姿势上呆了 25 分钟,因为我什么都不记得了。

I vaguely remembered that — sorry, I’ll move the pieces a bit — that if he goes h3, then this is the draw.

我依稀记得 ——对不起,我稍微移动一下棋子—— 如果他下h3,那么这就是平局。

COWEN

That’s what he should do, right?

这就是他应该做的,对吗?

ANAND

That’s a draw.

这是平局。

COWEN

Bishop e4, then?

那么主教e4呢?

ANAND: There is some draw.

ANAND:有一些吸引力。

I think you take, and then bishop b8 and then this knight is loose.

我认为你拿了,然后主教b8,然后这个骑士就松了。

The details are a thing.

细节是一回事。

When he played f4, I thought, “This move, I don’t remember at all.” I was searching, racking my brain to find out why, and I could not figure it out.

当他下f4的时候,我想:“这一步棋,我根本不记得了。”我苦苦思索,绞尽脑汁想找出原因,但始终无法弄清楚。

Then suddenly, I had this — almost something flashed in my head.

然后突然间,我脑子里闪过了这个——几乎有什么东西。

This knight was on this square on d3.

这位骑士在 d3 时就在这个方格上。

COWEN

In your head?

在你的脑海里吗?

ANAND

In my head.

在我的脑海里。

Suddenly some variation flashed where I had a knight on d3.

突然,一些变化闪现,我在 d3 上有一个骑士。

I couldn’t for the life of me connect it, but I started to look.

我无论如何也无法将其联系起来,但我开始寻找。

Is there something?

有什么东西吗?

There are obvious moves anyway.

无论如何,都有明显的动作。

I can do this, trying to get to d3.

我可以做到这一点,尝试到达 d3。

I can play e5, all based on the same ideas in the game, but none of them seemed to work.

我可以玩e5,所有游戏都基于相同的想法,但似乎都不起作用。

This one is too slow, he takes.

这个太慢了,他接受了。

This one, he’ll allow me to take and recapture it, so what’s the deal?

这个,他就让我拿走,拿回来,有什么关系?

Eventually, by elimination, I realized it must be bishop c5.

最终,通过排除,我意识到它一定是主教c5。

There’s nothing else.

没有别的了。

Once I started to look at bishop c5, it started to look good to me.

当我开始关注 c5 主教时,我开始觉得它不错。

Then it closes very fast.

然后它关闭得非常快。

It’s like finding out 80 percent of the map, and then the rest fills in very fast.

这就像找到了地图的 80%,然后剩下的部分很快就被填满了。

It gets accelerated.

它会加速。

COWEN

You knew knight to de5 was coming at that point.

那时你就知道knight to de5即将到来。

ANAND

That was the thing.

就是这样。

I’ll tell you, I played bishop c5 because if he takes, I take, he captures here, then my dream, my vision, whatever, is check and knight captures d3.

我告诉你,我玩主教c5,因为如果他拿走,我拿走,他在这里占领,那么我的梦想,我的愿景,无论什么,都是检查和骑士占领d3。

Then that knight, which pops into d3, works.

然后那个进入 d3 的骑士就开始工作了。

That’s all I had to reconstruct.

这就是我必须重建的一切。

It is beautiful that with very little, I was able to reconstruct it.

很美妙的是,我用很少的东西就能重建它。

Now, I went here .

现在,我去了这里。

Aronian was a bit shocked because he had not given it a lot of attention.

阿罗尼安有些震惊,因为他并没有给予太多的关注。

It was very courageous on his part to even get here because I had prepared this for a match against Gelfand, and the guy lets me and basically says, “Show me what you’ve got.

他来到这里是非常勇敢的,因为我已经为对阵盖尔范德的比赛做好了准备,他让我这么做,基本上是说,“让我看看你有什么。

Show me what you and your team spent a month on.” It’s brave, but it’s also irresponsible unless you have checked it yourself very thoroughly.

让我看看你和你的团队一个月都做了什么。”这是勇敢的,但也是不负责任的,除非你自己彻底检查过。

He seems to be slightly flippant about it.

他对此似乎有些轻率。

Anyway, after bishop e2, the rest played itself.

无论如何,在主教e2之后,剩下的就自然而然了。

For me, bishop c5 took 25 minutes.

对我来说,主教c5花了25分钟。

I don’t remember — knight d5 might’ve taken me five minutes, but more because I was double-checking rather than anything.

我不记得了——《knight d5》可能花了我五分钟,但更多是因为我在仔细检查而不是任何事情。

But this came effortlessly because already, we are talking of this knight has to support this one.

但这毫不费力,因为我们已经在谈论这个骑士必须支持这个骑士。

The queen and bishop are going to flood into d4, knight f2 check is going to win — all these little dots.

后和主教将涌入 d4,骑士 f2 检查将获胜  -  所有这些小点。

While this is maybe the most spectacular move, it’s the less difficult move to find, especially once you have done this.

虽然这可能是最壮观的举动,但它是较不难找到的举动,尤其是当你完成此动作后。

COWEN

Yes.

是的。

ANAND

Now, if you ask me, before I saw bishop c5, did I see knight d to e5?

现在,如果你问我,在我看到主教c5之前,我看到了骑士d到e5吗?

I did not even see bishop e2.

我什至没有看到主教e2。

I was more focused on the main thing.

我更专注于主要事情。

I didn’t see bishop e2.

我没有看到主教e2。

Once he played bishop e2, everything else filled itself, and I flooded in.

一旦他玩了 e2 主教,其他一切就都水到渠成了,我也涌了进来。

Of course, the big advantage was, by now, Rotlewi vs. Rubinstein was coming into my head.

当然,最大的优势是,现在我的脑海中浮现出罗特维与鲁宾斯坦的对决。

I knew what happens — we’ll get that structure a bit later — I knew what happens when you get this bishop, this bishop, all pointing in this direction.

我知道会发生什么 —— 我们稍后会得到那个结构 —— 我知道当你得到这个主教,这个主教,都指向这个方向时会发生什么。

COWEN

Smothered mate, h3 becomes impossible.

窒息了,伙计,h3 变得不可能了。

ANAND

Roughly speaking, this was Rotlewi vs Rubinstein with the knight here.

粗略地说,这是罗特维对阵鲁宾斯坦,骑士在这里。

It’s a classic game in chess history.

这是国际象棋史上的经典对弈。

I knew the patterns and all the details check out.

我知道模式并且所有细节都经过检查。

Once I played knight d5, the rest came pretty fast.

一旦我玩了骑士d5,剩下的就很快了。

There was only one more thing I had to find, king h1, knight takes g4.

我只需要找到一件事,国王 h1,骑士拿 g4。

Again, every move loses except what he did.

再说一次,除了他所做的之外,每一步都会失败。

COWEN

Then f5 is a brilliant move.

那么f5就是一个绝妙的举动。

ANAND

f5 is fantastic because for a dangerously long time — and later on, you shudder when you realize what you could have done — for quite some time I considered this move .

f5 太棒了,因为在很长一段危险的时间里 — 后来,当你意识到自己可以做什么时,你会不寒而栗 — 很长一段时间我都在考虑这一举动。

COWEN

Then queen h7 — it’s a draw, right?

那么皇后h7 —— 平局吧?

ANAND

Correct.

正确的。

COWEN

Or maybe you’re even worse.

或者也许你更糟。

ANAND

Maybe even I’m worse.

也许连我都更糟糕。

COWEN

Yes.

是的。

ANAND

The beauty is, this move was slightly easier to find because seven years ago, Kramnik had allowed queen h7 against Fritz — mate.

美妙之处在于,这一着法稍微容易找到一些,因为七年前,克拉姆尼克允许皇后 h7 对阵 Fritz - mate。

Kramnik and pretty much everyone said, “There is no way I would’ve allowed queen h7 if the knight had been on f6,” because to a human, immediately it signals danger all over the place.

克拉姆尼克和几乎每个人都说,“如果骑士处于 f6,我不可能允许女王 h7”,因为对于人类来说,它立即表明到处都有危险。

But a knight on f8 — you almost forget it’s there.

但是 f8  上的骑士——你几乎忘记了它的存在。

Whereas for a computer, it sees that both moves allow queen h7.

而对于计算机来说,它认为这两种走法都允许皇后 h7。

At some point, I realized, “Oh my God, queen h7, well, that would spoil a very nice position.” Then by elimination again, I could play f5.

在某个时刻,我意识到,“天哪,h7 皇后,好吧,这会破坏一个非常好的位置。”然后再通过淘汰,我就可以玩f5了。

Once again, all the dots connect.

所有的点再次连接起来。

COWEN

The queen will come to h4, and one way or another it’ll be over.

女王会来到 h4,无论如何都会结束。

Then you just knew you were completely winning.

然后你就知道你完全赢了。

ANAND

There’s one more detail, if you like, which is that here , I have to play this , it wins.

如果你愿意的话,还有一个细节,那就是,我必须玩这个,它赢了。

It’s the only move which doesn’t lose, but it also wins.

这是唯一不输的举动,但它也赢了。

On seeing short and long lines in chess

关于国际象棋中的短线和长线

COWEN

When Magnus did the Lex Fridman Podcast, he drew a distinction between chess players who see only short lines but are great at evaluation — he called himself one of those — or Caruana, who calculates very long lines but is not as good at evaluation.

当马格努斯做莱克斯·弗里德曼播客时,他区分了国际象棋棋手,他们只看到短线,但擅长评估——他称自己是其中之一——或卡鲁阿纳,他计算很长的线,但不擅长评估。

Does that dichotomy make sense to you?

这种二分法对你来说有意义吗?

ANAND

Very much.

非常。

It’s just the way your brain processes thoughts.

这就是你的大脑处理思想的方式。

Some people fill in the gaps intuitively.

有些人凭直觉填补空白。

When the pieces feel right, when the broad picture looks right, the answers will come to you.

当各个部分感觉正确时,当总体情况看起来正确时,答案就会出现。

You’re guided more by this sense of what is good and not.

你更多地受到这种善恶感的引导。

Of course, Caruana does it as well, but to a lower degree.

当然,卡鲁阿纳也这么做,但程度较低。

He calculates a lot more to fill in the gaps.

为了填补空白,他进行了更多的计算。

Therefore, Caruana is a lot better at finding exceptions.

因此,卡鲁阿纳更擅长发现例外情况。

The natural players miss exceptions because what looks good to them, or they happen to stumble on one position where what looks good isn’t good.

天生的玩家会错过例外,因为对他们来说看起来不错的事情,或者他们碰巧发现了一个看起来不错但实际上并不好的情况。

It hurts them.

这伤害了他们。

Caruana tends to miss that less often because he is not .

卡鲁阿纳很少会错过这一点,因为他不是。

.

。

.

。

In fact, Caruana’s approach — you could almost exaggerate and say it’s closer to a computer than many other humans.

事实上,卡鲁阿纳的方法 ——你几乎可以夸张地说,它比许多其他人类更接近计算机。

Of course, he is 1 percent of the way closer, but it doesn’t matter.

当然,他离目标还差百分之一,但这并不重要。

There are players who approach chess in a more systematic way.

有些棋手以更系统的方式学习国际象棋。

They’re the ones who tend to find exceptional ideas and things like that because of the way they don’t rule out stuff just on dogmatic grounds or something like that.

他们是那些倾向于发现特殊想法和类似事物的人,因为他们不会仅仅基于教条或类似的东西来排除某些东西。

But we are talking very small differences.

但我们谈论的是非常小的差异。

I think Caruana’s understanding is much closer to, let’s say, Carlsen’s than they think.

我认为卡鲁阿纳的理解比他们想象的更接近卡尔森的理解。

His approach is to calculate everything and look for very specific solutions.

他的方法是计算一切并寻找非常具体的解决方案。

Carlsen’s, as he says, “The hand will make the move.” You just know where the pieces go, and then you don’t need the details.

正如卡尔森所说,“手将做出行动。”您只需要知道各个部分的去向,然后就不需要详细信息了。

On preparing for a chess match

关于准备国际象棋比赛

COWEN

How do you prepare differently against each type of player?

你如何针对不同类型的玩家进行不同的准备?

ANAND

I don’t get down to that level of detail.

我不会深入到那么详细的程度。

If I was playing a match, I could try to incorporate that in my approach.

如果我正在参加一场比赛,我可以尝试将其纳入我的方法中。

But so much of chess is just getting the opening right, the moves right, the concepts right, that you don’t have time to micro-target like that.

但国际象棋的大部分内容只是让开局正确、动作正确、概念正确,你没有时间像这样进行微观目标。

It just doesn’t work, at least not for me.

它就是行不通,至少对我来说不行。

Perhaps others are able to do it.

也许其他人也能做到。

I would think the maximum level you could do it at is to choose the kind of opening which favors you the most intuitively and say, “From what I know of my opponent, this is the position where he’s fidgeting uncomfortably in his chair.” Once you’ve chosen the opening, you hope that insight actually plays out.

我认为你能做到的最高水平是选择一种最有利于你直觉的开局,并说:“据我对对手的了解,这就是他在椅子上坐立不安的位置。”一旦你选择了开头,你就会希望这种洞察力能够真正发挥作用。

At least for me, I’ve never been able to target much more.

至少对我来说,我从来没有能够设定更多的目标。

Like I just said, when I was playing Topalov, I used my insight into saying, “Well, these openings will work for me, and he’ll get impatient.

就像我刚才说的,当我扮演托帕洛夫时,我用我的洞察力说:“好吧,这些空缺对我有用,他会变得不耐烦。

He’ll try to do something active.

他会尝试做一些积极的事情。

Maybe I can punish him.” But once I’ve done that, the rest are just long lines, and I can’t use that insight anymore within the games.

或许我可以惩罚他。”但一旦我做到了这一点,剩下的就只是排长队了,我不能再在游戏中使用这种洞察力了。

You’ll have flashes of this at most, but chess is actually mostly long variations.

你最多只会看到这样的情况,但国际象棋实际上大多是长变体。

COWEN

What goes on inside your head during a match that no normal human could guess at?

在一场比赛中,你的脑子里会发生什么普通人无法猜到的事情?

ANAND

Surprisingly, how distracted we are.

令人惊讶的是,我们是多么心烦意乱。

During a match, even in very critical moments, I’ll be thinking what I can have for dinner, what I should have done yesterday, oh, I met that jerk yesterday, and this kind of stuff.

比赛的时候,哪怕是很关键的时刻,我也会想晚饭吃什么,昨天应该做什么,哦,昨天遇到了那个混蛋,诸如此类的事情。

Your brain wanders off.

你的大脑走神了。

It’s almost like taking your foot off the gas.

这几乎就像把脚从油门上松开一样。

Your brain wants to wander off for a while.

你的大脑想要走神一会儿。

You let it, and then you come back.

你放手了,然后你就回来了。

Or you keep one part focused on what’s happening, but while your opponent is thinking you can wander off.

或者你的一部分注意力集中在正在发生的事情上,但当你的对手认为你可以走开时。

During a match, even in very critical moments, I’ll be thinking what I can have for dinner, what I should have done yesterday, oh, I met that jerk yesterday, and this kind of stuff.

比赛的时候,哪怕是很关键的时刻,我也会想晚饭吃什么,昨天应该做什么,哦,昨天遇到了那个混蛋,诸如此类的事情。

Your brain wanders off.

你的大脑走神了。

It’s almost like taking your foot off the gas.

这几乎就像把脚从油门上松开一样。

Your brain wants to wander off for a while.

你的大脑想要走神一会儿。

You let it, and then you come back.

你放手了,然后你就回来了。

Or you keep one part focused on what’s happening, but while your opponent is thinking you can wander off.

或者,你的一部分注意力集中在正在发生的事情上,但当你的对手认为你可以走开时。

Whenever somebody tells me, “I don’t know how you concentrate for seven hours,” I understand that they don’t know how we play chess, or that they haven’t played chess themselves because we do not concentrate for seven hours.

每当有人告诉我,“我不知道你如何集中七个小时”,我明白他们不知道我们如何下棋,或者他们自己没有下过棋,因为我们没有集中七个小时。

Very few people do it.

很少有人这样做。

I would think even the brain simply goes on strike periodically and then comes back.

我认为即使是大脑也只是周期性地罢工然后回来。

I think that’s how it works.

我认为这就是它的运作方式。

COWEN

You’ve argued in your career you had a down period, something like 2011 to 2013.

你曾说过,在你的职业生涯中,你经历过一段低潮期,比如 2011 年到 2013 年。

Until recently, Caruana seemed to have a down period for a while.

直到最近,卡鲁阿纳似乎经历了一段时间的低迷期。

Why does that happen to very top players?

为什么顶级球员会出现这种情况?

ANAND

It’s very hard to explain.

这很难解释。

If you could even see it coming, you could start to think about it.

如果你能预见到它的到来,你就可以开始考虑它。

My feeling is it catches most people off guard.

我的感觉是它让大多数人措手不及。

They repeat a recipe probably too long.

他们重复一个食谱的时间可能太长了。

It’s not like anybody else spotted it coming.

不像其他人发现它的到来。

Suddenly you notice, “Hey, he’s not winning.” After one or two tournaments, you think, “He’s not winning quite as much as he used to, isn’t he?” Then you take a look, and you realize that slowly some resistance has built up in his game — resistance to the free flow, the most natural flow.

突然你注意到,“嘿,他没有赢。”经过一两场比赛后,你会想,“他赢的次数不如以前多了,不是吗?”然后你看一看,你会发现他的游戏中慢慢地出现了一些阻力——对自由流动、最自然的流动的阻力。

But it’s very hard to see it coming.

但很难看到它的到来。

Then, when you’re stuck in it, it’s very hard to see how to get out of it.

然后,当你陷入其中时,很难知道如何摆脱它。

In most cases, at least in my experience, the way to get out of it is to stop thinking about how to solve it and almost lighten yourself and get back to playing a normal game for normal reasons.

在大多数情况下,至少根据我的经验,摆脱困境的方法就是停止思考如何解决它,让自己轻松起来,并出于正常原因回到玩正常游戏。

You’d think that method could be refined, and you could apply it systematically, but if it did, nobody would have slumps anymore in form.

你会认为这个方法可以改进,你可以系统地应用它,但如果这样的话,没有人会再出现形式上的下滑。

There is something clearly that we can’t quite pick up on.

显然有一些我们无法完全理解的事情。

It’s a staleness that gets into your game.

这是一种进入游戏的陈旧感。

It’s probably an accumulation.

这大概就是一种积累吧。

If you’re doing too well for too long, others have been working nonstop trying to understand you.

如果你在太长的时间内表现得太好,其他人就会一直在不停地努力试图理解你。

At some point, without you or them realizing it, the gap is closed.

在某些时候,在你或他们没有意识到的情况下,差距就缩小了。

Then you’re encountering more resistance.

然后你会遇到更多的阻力。

You’re doing what worked perfectly before, but you’re encountering more resistance, and you can’t see why.

你正在做以前完美的事情,但你遇到了更多的阻力,而且你不明白为什么。

Your opponents don’t understand why they’re not losing, but they suddenly think, “Hey, this worked out better for me.” Somehow the gap closes, and the time has come for you to move on, try something else, bring some fresh perspective.

你的对手不明白为什么他们没有输,但他们突然想,“嘿,这对我来说效果更好。”不知何故,差距缩小了,是时候让你继续前进,尝试其他事情,带来一些新的视角了。

On Monty Python

关于 Monty Python

COWEN

What’s your favorite Monty Python skit?

你最喜欢 Monty Python 的短剧是什么?

ANAND

I like the one with the Pope.

我喜欢和教皇在一起的那一张。

COWEN

There are several with the Pope.

有几个与教皇在一起。

ANAND: Well, that’s true, that’s true.

阿南德:嗯,确实如此,确实如此。

Basically, Michelangelo.

基本上,米开朗基罗。

COWEN

That’s a good one.

这是一件好事。

I like Argument Clinic very much.

我非常喜欢争论诊所。

ANAND

There’s a lot of nice stuff with the Ministry of Silly Walks.

愚蠢行走部有很多好东西。

Parrot is very good.

鹦鹉非常好。

COWEN

Yes.

是的。

Cheese Shop is very good.

奶酪店非常好。

ANAND

Yes.

是的。

The Dead Parrot is very good.

死鹦鹉非常好。

COWEN

Summarize Proust — do you know that one?

总结普鲁斯特 — 你知道那个吗?

They didn’t show that one that much.

他们并没有太多地展示这一点。

ANAND

That I missed, but those were nice.

我错过了,但那些都很好。

Also, The Yorkshiremen — these guys all talking about how poor they were in their childhood.

还有,约克郡人——这些人都在谈论他们的童年有多么贫穷。

That’s fantastic.

太棒了。

I love the idea of a cardboard box in the highway.

我喜欢在高速公路上放置纸板箱的想法。

COWEN

Was Fawlty Towers ever as good as Monty Python?

弗尔蒂·塔尔斯 (Fawlty Towers) 曾经和巨蟒剧团 (Monty Python) 一样出色吗?

ANAND

I’ll tell you the first time — I visited the Indian consul general in the Hague, and he invited me to stay for lunch because he’s also from Chennai.

我第一次告诉你 —— 我拜访了印度驻海牙总领事,他邀请我留下来吃午饭,因为他也是金奈人。

He invited me to stay for lunch.

他邀请我留下来吃午饭。

I said, “Well, that’s very nice, thank you.

我说:“嗯,那太好了,谢谢。

I’ll stay.” Either before we were about to have lunch or after we had had lunch, he said, “Okay, I’ll put some .

我会留下来。”要么在我们准备吃午饭之前,要么吃完午饭后,他说:“好吧,我放一些。

.

。

.” He put a cassette in, and it was Fawlty Towers, and I started watching.

”。他放了一盘磁带,那是弗尔蒂塔,我开始观看。

At first, I didn’t understand the humor at all.

起初,我根本不明白其中的幽默。

I wasn’t even that familiar with Monty Python then, so it gives you an idea, but the humor seemed strange.

那时我对 Monty Python 还不太熟悉,所以它给了你一个想法,但幽默看起来很奇怪。

There’s always this one situation which is so absurd that you just can’t stop laughing.

总有一种情况很荒谬,让你忍不住笑。

At some point, I was laughing like a person who could not stop.

有时候,我笑得像个停不下来的人。

I was choking almost.

我几乎要窒息了。

That’s when I knew, so I would have to say Fawlty Towers is as good.

那时我就​​知道了,所以我不得不说弗尔蒂塔也一样好。

There are lines which are fantastic.

有些台词非常棒。

COWEN

“Don’t mention the war.” Right?

“别提战争了。”正确的?

ANAND

“Don’t mention the war,” yes.

“别提战争,”是的。

Maybe I’ve just watched it way too much, but this hotel inspector is great.

也许是我看太多了,但是这个酒店检查员很棒。

The health inspector is good.

卫生检查员人很好。

What I love is this deaf old lady who comes by and complains about everything.

我喜欢的是这个聋哑的老太太,她走过来抱怨一切。

He says, “What were you expecting from a hotel window in Torquay?” Also, the lovely thing, “Yes, madam, that’s the sea.

他说:“你对托基酒店的窗户有何期待?”还有,可爱的事情是,“是的,女士,那是大海。

It’s between the land and the sky.” It’s perfect stuff.

它位于陆地和天空之间。”这是完美的东西。

COWEN

What’s the most underrated Queen song?

皇后乐队最被低估的歌曲是什么?

ANAND

I don’t know.

我不知道。

I rate all of them very highly.

我对他们所有人的评价都非常高。

COWEN

Brighton Rock, I might pick.

布莱顿摇滚,我可能会选择。

I’ve heard Bohemian Rhapsody too many times at this point.

我已经听过太多次《波西米亚狂想曲》了。

ANAND

Yes, I’ve heard Bohemian Rhapsody as well.

是的,我也听过波西米亚狂想曲。

My problem is my son recently discovered Queen —

我的问题是我儿子最近发现了 Queen ——

COWEN

Uh-oh.

呃哦。

ANAND

— so we listen to it again almost in overdrive.

- 所以我们几乎在超速状态下再次听它。

I don’t think I have an underrated Queen song.

我不认为我有一首被低估的皇后乐队歌曲。

I’m aware that out there, there might be songs that are underrated.

我知道,可能有些歌曲被低估了。

COWEN

They’re all underrated in your view, right?

在你看来他们都被低估了,对吧?

ANAND

Yes.

是的。

For me, I rate them perfectly highly.

对我来说,我对他们的评价非常高。

I have this habit of listening to my four or five favorite songs in an album and ignoring the ones I don’t like.

我有一个习惯,就是在一张专辑中听四五首我最喜欢的歌曲,而忽略那些我不喜欢的歌曲。

My son is more disciplined in that way.

我的儿子在这方面更有纪律性。

He’ll actually listen to the whole album.

他实际上会听整张专辑。

He asks me questions about songs.

他问我有关歌曲的问题。

Some, I’ll give him two-hour descriptions; other ones, I’ll say, “You know, I’ve never heard that one.”

有些,我会给他两个小时的描述;其他的,我会说,“你知道,我从来没有听说过那个。”

On preparing openings

关于准备空缺

COWEN

In chess opening preparation — where does that end?

在国际象棋开局准备中 —— 到哪里结束?

What’s the bottleneck?

瓶颈是什么?

Does it just keep on going until the first 33 moves are prepackaged?

是否会一直持续到前 33 步动作完成为止?

ANAND

Some lines will go that far, but equally, you can use the computer to solve the problem that the computer has created, which is, if you take a single line and you go, I think you can go very, very far.

有些线会走那么远,但同样,你可以使用计算机来解决计算机创建的问题,也就是说,如果你只走一条线,然后走,我认为你可以走得很远。

You can also deviate at an earlier and earlier stage.

你也可以在越来越早的阶段偏离。

You can have it running on 20 lines, and you go for line number 17, and you’ll find that you’re not able to work it out just as thoroughly.

你可以让它在 20 行上运行,然后你跑到第 17 行,你会发现你无法彻底地解决它。

You need time to do it.

你需要时间来做这件事。

Before you do that, you move to the next one.

在执行此操作之前,请转到下一个。

No one is quite able to nail every possibility.

没有人能够完全确定所有可能性。

You can always surprise someone.

你总是可以给别人带来惊喜。

We saw this with Ding recently and Nepomniachtchi — he actually went h3 in one position.

我们最近在 Ding 和 Nepomniachtchi  身上看到了这一点——他实际上在一个位置上进行了 h3。

COWEN

Yes, but it was a mistake.

是的,但这是一个错误。

ANAND

Surprise backfired because Ian seemed to know exactly which line to play.

惊喜适得其反,因为伊恩似乎确切地知道该走哪条路。

He went for the one line where h3 turns out to be a disadvantage.

他选择了 h3 被证明是劣势的一条线。

That’s very hard to nail down.

这很难确定。

You have to get quite deep into it.

你必须深入其中。

Mostly that works, but yes, even with that qualification, the opening preparation everywhere is just building up and up.

大多数情况下,这是有效的,但是,是的,即使有了这个资格,各地的开业准备工作也只是不断进行。

There are lines I neglect for six months, and then I come back to them, and I realize, “Oh my God, I have to update everything.

有些台词我忽略了六个月,然后我回到它们,我意识到,“天哪,我必须更新所有内容。

I’m not sure of anything in this preparation anymore.”

我对这次准备工作已经不再有任何把握了。”

The problem in preparation is not whether it’s detailed.

准备的问题不在于是否详细。

The problem is whether you can believe in it.

问题是你能不能相信。

If you have not checked it 100 percent, it’s worthless.

如果你没有百分百检查它,它就毫无价值。

It’s like a 99 percent guarantee before you go into the operation.

这就像在您进行操作之前提供 99% 的保证。

You want to have a 100 percent guarantee, right?

您想要 100% 的保证,对吗?

99 percent is simply not good enough.

99% 根本不够好。

That’s the problem with opening preparation as well, that the computer allows you to question everything, every new version, every new program, every new piece of hardware.

这也是开放准备的问题,计算机允许你质疑一切,每一个新版本,每一个新程序,每一个新硬件。

Each one of those things can drive it.

这些事情中的每一件都可以驱动它。

Every six months or a year, you have to start all over again, cleaning your stuff.

每六个月或一年,你就必须重新开始,清理你的东西。

On the other hand, one of the great joys in chess research is to come to an opening that you’ve not seen in five years.

另一方面,国际象棋研究的最大乐趣之一就是找到五年来从未见过的机会。

That first day, you’re discovering everything new.

第一天,你就会发现一切新事物。

Every single line you refute and clean up, and you feel like you’ve cleaned your entire house of clutter, and you feel wonderful.

你反驳和清理的每一行,你感觉你已经清理了整个房子的杂物,你感觉棒极了。

It’s a double-edged sword, I will concede that, but it’s a pain in the neck when you want to rely on something.

我承认,这是一把双刃剑,但当你想要依赖某样东西时,它会让人头疼。

COWEN

The people are playing the Giuoco Piano again.

人们又开始演奏乔科钢琴了。

Is it that we’ve discovered it’s better than Ruy Lopez?

是不是我们发现它比鲁伊·洛佩兹更好?

Or just we’re sick of all the old lines, and we’re going to try something different for three years and then move on?

或者只是我们厌倦了所有的旧路线,我们将尝试三年不同的东西,然后继续前进?

The Two Knights game is even coming a bit into fashion.

两个骑士游戏甚至开始流行起来。

Is it cycling or continuous improvement?

是循环还是持续改进?

ANAND

A lot of it’s cycling.

很多都是骑自行车。

At some point — I don’t remember, maybe five or six years ago — there was an individualistic collective sense that maybe the Ruy Lopez is neglected territory, virgin territory.

在某个时刻————我不记得了,也许是五六年前————有一种个人主义的集体意识,认为鲁伊·洛佩兹也许是被忽视的领地、处女地。

“Let’s go back there and try that, because of Italian and the Giuoco Piano, my God, there’s nothing left to find.” Then we do.

“让我们回到那里试试,因为意大利和乔科钢琴,我的上帝,没有什么可找到的了。”然后我们就这么做了。

Everybody goes after the Ruy Lopez for a year, and suddenly a couple of guys say, “Let’s look at the Italian again,” and you think, “Ah, there are a few things we haven’t picked up on,” so you swing back there.

每个人都追随鲁伊·洛佩兹一年,突然有几个人说,“让我们再看看意大利人,”你会想,“啊,有一些事情我们还没有发现,”所以你又回到了那里。

And it goes like this, but it’s an arms race, and we are not winning.

事情是这样的,但这是一场军备竞赛,我们没有赢。

COWEN

Was it a kind of market inefficiency that the King’s Indian Defense could survive for so long?

国王的印度防务公司能够生存这么久,是否是一种市场效率低下的原因?

Radjabov did pretty well with it until recently.

直到最近,拉贾博夫在这方面做得还不错。

You’ve played it a fair amount, but it just seems like a bad move, right?

你已经玩了相当多的游戏了,但这似乎是一个糟糕的举动,对吧?

ANAND

There’s a time when it looked just lost.

曾经有一段时间,它看起来只是迷失了。

There was a time, maybe five, six years ago when the King’s Indian just looked lost because the computer always said it was lost.

曾经有一段时间,大约五六年前,国王的印第安人看起来迷路了,因为电脑总是说它迷路了。

Recently, maybe even a year ago, the computer said, “No, I confirm it’s dead lost.” People have always sensed that there’s something fundamentally unsound about the King’s Indian, but we couldn’t quite prove it.

最近,甚至可能是一年前,计算机说:“不,我确认它已经完全丢失了。”人们总是感觉到国王印第安人有一些根本性的不健全之处,但我们无法完全证明这一点。

That was why people were going on.

这就是人们继续前进的原因。

You know the famous quote of Koechner, right?

你知道 Koechner 的名言,对吗?

He told Aaron Pickett, “The King’s Indian is not an opening.

他告诉亚伦·皮克特:“国王的印第安人不是一个空缺。

It’s a disease.”

这是一种疾病。”

COWEN

Yes.

是的。

ANAND

He had it right all along.

他一直都是对的。

Recently, Fabiano started playing h6 in the King’s Indian, the classical King’s Indian.

最近,法比亚诺开始在 King's Indian 中演奏 h6,这是经典的 King's Indian 曲。

The beauty of that is it’s not quite refutable.

这样做的美妙之处在于它并不完全是不可反驳的。

It’s got just enough life to drag on for a while.

它的寿命刚好够拖一段时间。

People come to parts of the King’s Indian that they like.

人们来到国王印第安人喜欢的地方。

The King’s Indian that are lines that you find difficult to play, but if you come in from a Grünfeld move order, and white does something against anti-Grünfeld, and you swing from there back to the King’s Indian; or you come from a Benoni move order, and you get into the King’s Indian; or even, you put the bishop on e7 and rotate it this way, that way — King’s Indian concepts turn out to be very, very dynamic and healthy, even if you’re not getting to it in the same structure opening.

国王印第安人是你觉得很难玩的线,但如果你是从格林菲尔德走棋顺序进来的,而白棋做了一些对抗反格林菲尔德的事情,你就从那里回到国王印第安人;或者你来自伯诺尼搬迁命令,并且你进入了国王印第安人;或者甚至,你把主教放在e7上并以这种方式旋转它,这样 - King的印度概念变得非常非常有活力和健康,即使你没有在相同的结构开口中达到它。

So, King’s Indian players have found a way to get their King’s Indian fix for the week without having to go down the old main line.

因此,King's Indian 玩家找到了一种方法,无需走旧的主线即可获得本周的 King's Indian 修复。

That’s how it goes.

事情就是这样。

Computers will contradict themselves every couple of years, so maybe the pendulum has swung too far this side.

计算机每隔几年就会出现矛盾,所以也许钟摆已经向这边摆得太远了。

COWEN

Does Fischer Random have a future, or it’s just a side thing forever?

费舍尔随机有未来吗,还是永远只是一个副业?

ANAND

Fischer Random actually has a brilliant future because it’s a form of chess which has not been understood at all.

费舍尔随机棋实际上有着光明的未来,因为它是一种根本不被理解的国际象棋形式。

Fischer Random was conceived as a way of avoiding opening theory.

费舍尔随机被认为是一种避免开局理论的方法。

Later on, people rediscovered it as a way of avoiding computers.

后来,人们重新发现它是一种避开计算机的方法。

Now, we realize we are not avoiding computers at all.

现在,我们意识到我们根本没有回避计算机。

They’re just as good at Fischer Random or No Castling as they are at chess.

他们擅长费舍尔随机棋或无王易位,就像他们擅长国际象棋一样。

New versions, we are never going to catch up with computers.

新版本,我们永远赶不上计算机。

But for playing amongst ourselves, this is completely new territory, and there’s a lot of scope for creativity and everything we used to look for.

但对于我们自己之间的游戏来说,这是一个全新的领域,这里有很大的创造力空间和我们过去寻找的一切。

It’s a variant with a lot of promise, maybe the one chess players are most comfortable with.

这是一种充满希望的变体,也许是国际象棋棋手最喜欢的一种。

However, in the meantime, I have played No Castling a few times.

然而,与此同时,我也玩过几次“无王位”游戏。

That turns out to be fascinating.

事实证明这很有趣。

The first time I sat with my computer, and I had to play knight f3, rook g1, and repeated four corners, all four rooks and knights so that white couldn’t castle anymore, and then switch on the engine and analyze openings like this.

我第一次坐在电脑前,我必须玩骑士f3,车g1,并重复四个角,所有四个车和骑士,这样白棋就不能再城堡了,然后打开引擎并像这样分析开局。

I realized that almost every opening can be reevaluated if your king can’t castle.

我意识到,如果你的国王无法城堡,几乎每个空缺都可以重新评估。

Everywhere the right plan turns out to be h4, h5, rook h4 thing, except the ones where it’s not.

在任何地方,正确的计划都是 h4、h5、rook h4 的东西,除了那些不是的。

There are no general rules yet, or we have not come that far, so we find every little detail.

目前还没有一般规则,或者我们还没有走到这一步,所以我们找到了每一个小细节。

Now, there are lots of other versions that are coming up, and you can have as many as you dream of.

现在,还有许多其他版本即将推出,您可以拥有任意数量的版本。

You can have pawns moving sideways, pawns capturing straight and moving diagonally.

您可以让 pawn 向侧面移动、pawn 直线捕获并沿对角线移动。

You can have every variant you want.

您可以拥有您想要的每种变体。

You program it into the computer and let it play a million games and see what pops out.

你将它编程到计算机中,让它玩一百万个游戏,看看会出现什么结果。

This may be a solution for the distant future, but for the moment, chess looks healthy enough, especially if you vary.

这可能是遥远未来的解决方案,但就目前而言,国际象棋看起来足够健康,特别是如果你改变的话。

People who have played too much classical chess have a round of faster controls, and then when you’ve done too many faster controls, you go back to classical.

玩过太多古典象棋的人会进行一轮更快的控制,然后当你进行了太多更快的控制时,你又回到了古典。

If you keep varying like this, that’s one thing that keeps the game moving along.

如果你继续这样变化,那就是让游戏继续前进的一件事。

The second thing that works very well is, for instance, what they do in Tata Steel, which is to have a mixed field.

第二个非常有效的事情是,例如,他们在塔塔钢铁公司所做的事情,就是拥有一个混合领域。

Not all super-prepared top GMs, but a mixture of very courageous young juniors with top GMs.

并不是所有的顶级总经理都准备充分,而是由非常勇敢的年轻后辈和顶级总经理组成。

You have that mix that also leads to a lot of unpredictability.

这种混合也会导致很多不可预测性。

If you keep moving around, you change the format, change the variant, change the time control, change this, change that, you just keep shuffling, we can go on for quite some time.

如果你不断地移动,你改变格式,改变变体,改变时间控制,改变这个,改变那个,你只要不断地洗牌,我们就可以持续很长一段时间。

COWEN

Is there a chance that 10 years from now, say, rapid play is the World Chess Championship?

比如说,10年后,快棋是否有可能成为世界国际象棋锦标赛?

ANAND

I wouldn’t rule it out.

我不排除这种可能性。

I wouldn’t rule it out, but I feel that classical would still exist.

我不排除这种可能性,但我觉得古典仍然存在。

It’s just public taste would’ve moved along.

只是公众的品味会改变。

The same could be said for blitz chess, if you want.

如果你愿意的话,对于闪电战国际象棋也可以这样说。

We are also dealing now, thanks to the revolution of the last five or six years — which in general, I mean what happened with the Queen’s Gambit, what happened the last couple of years — which is that maybe the number of people who are casual fans of chess are far greater than serious fans of chess.

我们现在也面临着过去五六年的革命——“总的来说,我指的是后弃兵发生的事情,过去几年发生的事情——”也许休闲国际象棋爱好者的数量​​远远多于国际象棋的忠实爱好者。

COWEN

Sure, of course.

当然,当然。

ANAND

They’re actually following the game now, whereas before, they would follow it once in a while.

他们现在实际上正在关注游戏,而以前,他们只是偶尔关注一次。

Now they actually have an impact, and you sense it in the numbers.

现在它们确实产生了影响,你可以从数字中感受到这一点。

Thanks to them, I think they may not have this old attachment to classical chess.

感谢他们,我想他们可能不再对古典象棋有这种古老的执着。

They may also not know who Capablanca was.

他们可能也不知道卡帕布兰卡是谁。

When that is felt in the sport, then the sport will inevitably cater to their tastes more and more.

当在这项运动中感受到这一点时,这项运动将不可避免地越来越迎合他们的口味。

But I don’t think that classical chess will disappear.

但我不认为古典国际象棋会消失。

It’s just that it used to be 100 percent of chess.

只是它曾经是100%的国际象棋。

Then for the last couple of decades, it’s been about 80 percent of chess.

然后在过去的几十年里,它占据了国际象棋的 80% 左右。

Now I would say it’s closer to 30, 40 percent of chess, which leaves the other variants fighting with 60 percent, the other time controls fighting with 60 percent.

现在我想说的是,它接近国际象棋的 30%、40%,这使得其他变体以 60% 进行战斗,其他时间控制以 60% 进行战斗。

It’s a question of the mix.

这是一个混合的问题。

There will always be some role for having a lot of time to think and find interesting stuff, but all the time is very hard, especially given modern preparation.

有大量时间思考和发现有趣的东西总是有一定作用的,但所有的时间都非常困难,特别是考虑到现代的准备。

COWEN

How is it you think that playing so much as a streamer seems to have made Nakamura better?

您认为作为主播玩得这么久似乎让中村变得更好了吗?

Psychologically better too, right?

心理上也好一点吧?

ANAND

I don’t think the streaming helps him become a better player, but what it has done is, it’s taken a lot of pressure off him.

我不认为直播能帮助他成为一名更好的球员,但它的作用是,它减轻了他很大的压力。

He really felt he had only one way to show who he was, and that was on the chess board.

他真的觉得他只有一种方式来展示自己,那就是在棋盘上。

Now, he suddenly realizes, “I’ve got this other method where people appreciate me and cheer me.”

现在,他突然意识到,“我还有另一种方法,可以让人们欣赏我,为我加油。”

In fact, many years ago, in 2011 in Tata Steel, he made a winner speech, and I was surprised the way he said.

事实上,很多年前,2011年,他在塔塔钢铁公司发表了获奖感言,我对他说话的方式感到惊讶。

He said, “It’s so wonderful to be in Holland where we’re appreciated for our chess.

他说:“来到荷兰真是太棒了,我们的国际象棋受到赞赏。

In the US, nobody would care,” or something like that.

在美国,没有人会关心,”或者类似的话。

He did this as the winner in the closing speech.

他在闭幕词中以获胜者的身份做到了这一点。

I thought, “Well, quite a strange thing to say.” If you had kept that thought in the background, now he’s got the adulation he wants.

我想:“嗯,这话说得很奇怪。”如果你把这个想法放在心里,现在他就得到了他想要的奉承。

In fact, he seems to crave it.

事实上,他似乎很渴望它。

He goes back and does a recap every day, and things like that.

他每天都会回去回顾,诸如此类。

He really seems to want it.

看来他真的很想要。

What I think is helping him is playing blitz tournaments nonstop online.

我认为对他有帮助的是不间断地在线参加闪电战锦标赛。

That allows him to keep there, and it might be the best way to train for a modern computerized opening preparation era, where there’s so little to do with preparation because the computer solves everything, but you get to test every concept a million times over the board.

这让他能够留在那里,这可能是为现代计算机化开局准备时代进行训练的最佳方式,在这个时代,准备工作几乎没有什么用处,因为计算机解决了一切,但你可以对每个概念进行一百万次测试。

That’s why he’s so good at it.

这就是为什么他如此擅长。

That’s why all the best players now are playing these online blitz events.

这就是为什么现在所有最好的玩家都在参加这些在线闪电战赛事。

You can put me on the spot and say, “Well, if you think that’s the case, why aren’t you doing it?” I haven’t got round.

你可以让我陷入困境并说:“好吧,如果你认为是这样的话,你为什么不这样做呢?”我还没来得及。

I do some training online, but I don’t feel like sitting from midnight till 3:00 in the morning playing online blitz, these Tuesday events, and so on.

我在网上做了一些训练,但我不想从午夜坐到凌晨 3:00 玩在线闪电战、周二的活动等等。

COWEN

If you were much younger, could you imagine yourself as a streamer?

如果你年轻得多,你能想象自己是一名主播吗?

ANAND

I can imagine being a streamer now very easily, but what I don’t see myself doing is spending all night playing.

我可以很轻松地想象现在成为一名主播,但我不认为自己会整晚都在玩游戏。

Also, I don’t feel like playing that much blitz.

另外,我不想玩那么多闪电战。

I always tell myself I should do a bit more, but in the end, the body just doesn’t get up, and then that’s it.

我总是告诉自己应该多做一点,但到最后身体就是起不来,就这样了。

You just don’t go there.

你只是不去那里。

I easily see myself trying streaming or something, but it’s a question of how long you want to invest in it.

我很容易想到自己会尝试流媒体或其他什么,但问题是你想投资多久。

Again, success is not going to come very fast.

再次强调,成功不会来得很快。

There’re a lot of crocodiles already in that watering hole.

那个水坑里已经有很多鳄鱼了。

You’ll have to spend quite some time and do stuff daily, and things like that.

你必须花相当多的时间每天做一些事情,诸如此类的事情。

It’s a big time commitment, is what I’m trying to say.

这是一个重大的时间承诺,这就是我想说的。

I could very easily see myself doing it, and I’ve done versions of it over the last couple years.

我可以很容易地看到自己在做这件事,而且在过去的几年里我已经做了一些版本。

I did a lot of online coaching.

我做了很多在线辅导。

Lots of my talks that I used to give for companies, I do online as well nowadays.

我以前为公司做的很多演讲现在也在网上进行。

I’ve done versions of it.

我已经完成了它的版本。

I could see myself doing that, especially commentary.

我可以看到自己正在这样做,尤其是评论。

How difficult is it, instead of going to a tournament and doing commentary from there, just to sit in your room and do it?

不去参加比赛并在那里做评论,只是坐在你的房间里做这件事有多困难?

It’s very easy.

这很容易。

That I could see.

我能看到。

The other bit — probably I’m just a bit old.

另外一点——可能是我年纪有点大了。

COWEN

I think it was MVL who made the remark that in a post AlphaZero world, what we’ve learned is how much chess is truly the concrete and how few generalizations there are.

我认为是 MVL 说过这样一句话:在后 AlphaZero 的世界里,我们学到的是国际象棋有多少是真正具体的,而概括性的东西又是多么少。

Does that make sense to you?

这对你来说有意义吗?

Or what do you think we’ve learned from AlphaZero?

或者你认为我们从 AlphaZero 学到了什么?

ANAND

That’s a broader trend.

这是一个更广泛的趋势。

I don’t even know if it starts with AlphaZero.

我什至不知道它是否以 AlphaZero 开头。

Maybe that’s where it became most visible, but he’s right.

也许这就是它变得最明显的地方,但他是对的。

There are no general principles anymore.

不再有一般原则了。

In fact, new general principles emerge.

事实上,新的一般原则出现了。

Nowadays, we push the h and a pawns whenever we want, and it’s not a bad move.

如今,我们可以随时推 h 和 a 兵,这不是一个坏棋。

Twenty years ago, these moves would have been considered betraying a complete lack in chess education.

二十年前,这些举动会被认为暴露了国际象棋教育的完全缺乏。

Now, it’s not there.

现在,它不在那里了。

Everything we used to think was bad, we’re forced to evaluate move by move.

我们过去认为的一切都是不好的,我们被迫一步一步地评估。

Some of them will turn out to be bad; many of them won’t.

其中一些最终会变得很糟糕;他们中的许多人不会。

You just have to know specific reasons, and you’ll just have to get into the details.

你只需要知道具体的原因,并且只需要了解细节。

He’s right about that.

他是对的。

That’s probably a cry from a person who’s having to prepare this stuff all the time.

这可能是一个必须一直准备这些东西的人的呼喊。

Anyway, he’s right.

无论如何,他是对的。

Chess nowadays — it’s about finding out exceptions to everything.

如今的国际象棋 ——在于找出一切事物的例外。

That’s where a lot of the growth is as a chess player because all of us — we are hardwired to think these things are good, these things are bad.

这就是作为一名国际象棋棋手的成长所在,因为我们所有人 — 我们生来就认为这些事情是好的,这些事情是坏的。

But imagine that you now have to wander in the field of everything you thought was bad and realize that half of it might be good.

但想象一下,你现在必须在你认为不好的一切领域里徘徊,并意识到其中一半可能是好的。

That’s where we see ourselves now.

这就是我们现在看到的自己。

COWEN

Rook g1 against the Najdorf — is that a novelty move or actually a very good move?

Rook g1 对阵 Najdorf ——这是一个新奇的举动还是实际上是一个非常好的举动?

Because no one played it in the time of Fischer, right?

因为在费舍尔时代没有人玩过它,对吗?

ANAND

No, none at all, but even when Fischer played h3, people thought, “What the hell is this?” Then they said, “Oh, but Fischer did it.

不,根本没有,但即使费舍尔演奏 h3,人们也会想,“这到底是什么?”然后他们说:“哦,但是费舍尔做到了。

It’s okay.” You need a stamp of approval.

没关系。”您需要盖章批准。

The computer is now the new stamp of approval.

计算机现在成为新的认可标志。

Rook g1, by the way, predates AlphaZero, and it predates modern engines.

顺便说一句,Rook g1 早于 AlphaZero,也早于现代发动机。

We’re talking at least 15, 20 years.

我们谈论的是至少 15、20 年。

Bishop d2 on move six — that is such nonsense.

主教 d2 第六步 ——这真是胡说八道。

Even when the computer is running, I think this is nonsense.

即使计算机正在运行,我也认为这是无稽之谈。

The fact that — especially with a computer — it doesn’t lose on the spot tells me nothing.

事实上 ——尤其是对于计算机来说——它不会当场丢失,这一事实告诉我什么都没有。

This is nonsense.

这是无稽之谈。

There are people who play it, and then next thing you know, there’s theory building up.

有人玩它,然后你知道,理论就建立起来了。

On the Vishy Anand production function

关于 Vishy Anand 生产函数

COWEN

At age 53, you’re still in the world top ten.

53岁了,你仍然在世界前十名之内。

There’s no one else in the top ten close to your age, and you have been India’s number one for what, 37 years, 38 years?

前十名中没有其他人与你年龄相近,而你成为印度第一已经有多久了,37年、38年?

ANAND

37 years.

37岁。

COWEN

What keeps you going?

是什么让你坚持下去?

What motivates you?

是什么激励你?

ANAND

I like playing chess.

我喜欢下棋。

A couple of years ago, I decided that maybe playing full time, playing the whole year round and trying to compete at the highest level wasn’t worth it in terms of the amount of time and effort I would have to put in for the results I expected.

几年前,我认为全职打球、全年打球并试图参加最高水平的比赛并不值得,因为我需要投入大量的时间和精力才能获得预期的结果。

I decided to semi-retire, a decision made easy in the pandemic because everyone was semi-retired in the pandemic.

我决定半退休,这个决定在大流行中很容易做出,因为每个人在大流行中都是半退休的。

The key thing was not to come back after the pandemic was over.

关键是疫情结束后就别回来了。

I played a little bit here and there whenever I could because I still like playing, and for me, chess tournaments are primarily social events where you meet everyone, and you hang out with everyone again.

只要有机会,我就到处玩一会儿,因为我仍然喜欢玩,对我来说,国际象棋锦标赛主要是社交活动,你可以在那里见到每个人,然后再次与每个人一起出去玩。

When I did all that, I enjoyed myself.

当我做这一切的时候,我很享受。

Then I would say, “Okay, now for four months, I’m not going to play anything.” Much longer break than before.

然后我会说,“好吧,现在四个月了,我不会玩任何东西。”休息时间比以前长很多。

Also, I’m living in India more or less the whole time when I’m not playing.

另外,当我不打球的时候,我或多或少都住在印度。

That’s changed a lot.

这改变了很多。

Some of it is family.

其中一些是家庭。

My son is growing up, so you also want to prioritize what you’re doing with your time, and so on.

我的儿子正在长大,所以你也要优先考虑你正在做的事情,等等。

I really enjoy the few tournaments that I play.

我真的很喜欢我参加的几场比赛。

When I play these rapid and blitzes and I have these one or two events in the year, four or five months before leading up to them, I start training again.

当我打这些快速赛和闪电赛时,一年中我会参加一两次比赛,在比赛之前四五个月,我会再次开始训练。

Just to get back in this frame of mind where chess is not just some philosophical thing where you can do this and you can do that.

只是为了回到这样的心态,国际象棋不仅仅是一些你可以做这个、你可以做那个的哲学事物。

It’s concrete moves, like MVL said.

正如 MVL 所说,这是具体的举措。

The most important skill in chess is, if I was sitting at a board now with the clock ticking, what would I make in this position?

国际象棋中最重要的技能是,如果我现在坐在棋盘上,时钟滴答作响,我在这个位置会下什么棋?

Then suddenly, the infinite variety of choices you have becomes irrelevant.

然后突然之间,你拥有的无限多种选择就变得无关紧要了。

You have to make only one move.

您只需迈出一步。

How do you switch to that frame of mind?

你如何转变到这种心态?

I try to stick there, but I really love analyzing and working on chess.

我试着坚持下去,但我真的很喜欢分析和研究国际象棋。

And maybe even, just like for Hikaru, having something else fill part of your life allows you to come back to chess with much more enthusiasm, these long breaks.

甚至,就像光一样,让其他事情占据你生活的一部分可以让你带着更多的热情回到国际象棋,这些长时间的休息。

Then, when I get back to chess, I’m much more enthusiastic about playing, and I look forward to it.

然后,当我回到国际象棋时,我对下棋更加热情,而且我很期待。

That might be a huge fact as well.

这也可能是一个巨大的事实。

When I lose, I can’t imagine anyone in the world who loses as badly as I do inside.

当我失败时,我无法想象世界上有谁会像我内心一样输得那么惨。

COWEN

Do you hate losing as much as Kasparov does?

你和卡斯帕罗夫一样讨厌失败吗?

ANAND

To me, it seems he isn’t even close to me, but I admit I can’t see him from the inside, and he probably can’t see me from the inside.

在我看来,他离我并不近,但我承认我看不到他的内心,他也可能看不到我的内心。

When I lose, I can’t imagine anyone in the world who loses as badly as I do inside.

当我输球的时候,我无法想象世界上还有谁会输得像我一样惨痛。

COWEN

You think you’re the worst at losing?

你认为你是最容易失败的人吗?

ANAND

At least that I know of.

至少据我所知。

A couple of years ago, whenever people would say, “But how are you such a good loser?” I’d say, “I’m not a good loser.

几年前,每当人们会说:“但是你怎么会是一个这么好的失败者呢?”我会说:“我不是一个好的失败者。

I’m a good actor.” I know how to stay composed in public.

我是一个好演员。”我知道如何在公共场合保持镇定。

I can even pretend for five minutes, but I can only do it for five minutes because I know that once the press conference is over, once I can finish talking to you, I can go back to my room and hit my head against the wall because that’s what I’m longing to do now.

我什至可以假装五分钟,但我只能假装五分钟,因为我知道,一旦新闻发布会结束,一旦我能和你说完,我就可以回到我的房间,用头撞墙,因为这就是我现在渴望做的事情。

In fact, it’s gotten even worse because as you get on, you think, “I should have known that.

事实上,情况变得更糟,因为当你继续前进时,你会想:“我应该知道这一点。

I should have known that.

我应该知道这一点。

I should have known not to do that.

我早该知道不要那样做。

What is the point of doing this a thousand times and not learning anything?” You get angry with yourself much more.

这样做一千次却什么也没学到有什么意义呢?”你对自己更加生气。

I hate losing much more, even than before.

我比以前更讨厌失去。

COWEN

There’s an interview with Magnus on YouTube, and they ask him to rate your sanity on a scale of 1 to 10 — I don’t know if you’ve seen this — and he gives you a 10.

YouTube 上有一个对 Magnus 的采访,他们要求他从 1 到 10 的范围内给你的理智打分——“我不知道你是否看过这个”——他给了你 10 分。

Is he wrong?

他错了吗?

ANAND

No, he’s completely right.

不,他完全正确。

He’s completely right.

他是完全正确的。

Sanity is being able to show the world that you are sane even when you’re insane.

理智就是能够向世界表明,即使你精神错乱,你也是理智的。

Therefore I’m 11.

所以我11岁了。

COWEN

Overall, how happy a lot do you think top chess players are?

总体而言,您认为顶级棋手的幸福程度如何?

Say, top 20 players?

比如说,前20名球员?

ANAND

I think they’re very happy.

我认为他们很高兴。

They understand that they’re able to be chess players and that they can have a pretty good life doing so.

他们知道自己可以成为国际象棋棋手,并且可以过上美好的生活。

Just like anybody who finds that they’re doing what they wanted to do, what they would be doing anyway, even in worse circumstances, but they’re able to do it in a pretty nice way and challenging way.

就像任何人发现自己正在做自己想做的事情,无论如何他们都会做的事情,即使在最糟糕的情况下,但他们能够以一种非常好的方式和具有挑战性的方式去做。

Then we understand we’re privileged.

然后我们就会明白我们有特权。

In fact, the funny thing is how many chess players are happy even not being top players, because chess is, again, one of these callings.

事实上,有趣的是,有多少国际象棋棋手即使不是顶级棋手也很高兴,因为国际象棋又是这些职业之一。

You find yourself in it, and you really enjoy it.

你会发现自己置身其中,而且你真的很享受它。

It’s quite hard for a chess player to quit and switch to something else.

对于一名国际象棋棋手来说,放弃并转向其他职业是相当困难的。

They always have this time lag.

他们总是有这个时间差。

I was quite surprised to see when Kenneth Rogoff —

我很惊讶地看到肯尼思·罗格夫——

COWEN

Became an economist, as I did.

成为一名经济学家,就像我一样。

ANAND

Yes, well, he became an economist, but recently, maybe seven, eight years ago, somebody asked him, “So what’s it like thinking about chess again?” Because he had come to a chess tournament.

是的,好吧,他成为了一名经济学家,但最近,也许七、八年前,有人问他,“那么再次思考国际象棋是什么感觉?”因为他来参加国际象棋比赛。

He said, “I never stopped thinking about it.” For me that was strange, because I would assume that after five years, it drops way below, but apparently, he kept at it all that time.

他说:“我从未停止过思考这个问题。”对我来说,这很奇怪,因为我认为五年后,它会下降到更低的水平,但显然,他一直坚持下去。

He would think about chess every day.

他每天都会思考国际象棋。

Maybe you think the same thing.

也许你也这么想。

COWEN

When I see him, he and I talk chess, not economics.

当我见到他时,他和我谈论的是国际象棋,而不是经济。

He doesn’t want to talk economics with me.

他不想和我谈论经济学。

ANAND

Sure.

当然。

COWEN

If you had to boil down your cognitive ability or abilities into as small a number of dimensions as possible, what’s the cognitive ability you have that makes you special?

如果你必须将你的认知能力归结为尽可能小的维度,那么你所拥有的让你与众不同的认知能力是什么?

ANAND

The ability, well, is it cognitive?

这种能力是认知能力吗?

The ability to pull out details from a mass of information that I’ve seen.

从我所看到的大量信息中提取细节的能力。

In chess, we may see a thousand games from this, and then at the board, I may be able to distill the right idea from all that.

在国际象棋中,我们可能会从中看到一千盘棋,然后在棋盘上,我也许能够从中提炼出正确的想法。

Being able to extract useful ideas from a lot of information.

能够从大量信息中提取有用的想法。

Also, good visual intelligence.

此外,良好的视觉智能。

Just in chess, the only skill which a top chess player has to have, really, is the sense that something is going wrong.

就国际象棋而言,顶级棋手必须具备的唯一技能实际上就是对出现问题的感觉。

That’s a visual thing, because with very few details, you suddenly think, “Now I feel uncomfortable, there’s something wrong here.” That’s one of the most important skills you can have in chess.

这是一个视觉上的事情,因为只有很少的细节,你突然会想,“现在我感觉不舒服,这里有问题。”这是国际象棋中最重要的技能之一。

Besides probably just the usual mix, bit of memory, good memory, at least for things that I’m interested in; ability to focus on one thing and then keep at it.

除了通常的组合之外,一点记忆力,良好的记忆力,至少对于我感兴趣的事情;专注于一件事并坚持下去的能力。

COWEN

Is there some other area where you have also a remarkable ability?

您是否在其他领域也拥有出色的能力?

ANAND

Wow.

哇。

COWEN

Magnus seems to be great at fantasy football.

马格努斯似乎很擅长梦幻足球。

Some chess players are great at bridge.

有些棋手非常擅长桥牌。

ANAND

I’m good in games.

我擅长游戏。

Lots of these games you play just for fun.

很多这样的游戏你玩只是为了好玩。

Immediately, I find that I start at an acceptable level, so maybe there is some skill there, but I’ve not thought about it that much.

立刻,我发现我的起点是可以接受的,所以也许有一些技巧,但我没有考虑那么多。

COWEN

Last two questions.

最后两个问题。

There are so many talented young chess players from Tamil Nadu.

泰米尔纳德邦有很多才华横溢的年轻国际象棋棋手。

Obviously, you know them, you play with them.

显然,你认识他们,你和他们一起玩。

And if you’re looking for who will really climb to the top, like Pragga and Gukesh, other than just how well they play at the moment, what else do you look for?

如果你正在寻找谁能真正登上顶峰,比如普拉加和古克什,除了他们目前的表现之外,你还寻找什么?

ANAND

If they’re very young, I want to see a certain amount of fanaticism.

如果他们很年轻,我希望看到一定程度的狂热。

I think fanaticism is good when you’re in your teens, but quite a few of them have that.

我认为青少年时期的狂热是件好事,但很多人都有这种倾向。

I think maturity is maybe the most important thing because Pragga and Gukesh have taken some horrible blows.

我认为成熟可能是最重要的,因为普拉加和古克什遭受了一些可怕的打击。

What I’ve realized is that they’re quite strong in a way that I’m amazed, maybe because for me, losing hurts so much more.

我意识到他们在某种程度上非常强大,这让我感到惊讶,也许是因为对我来说,失败更痛苦。

I can no longer understand people who are relaxed about losing.

我再也无法理解那些对失败感到轻松的人了。

Maybe I was once more relaxed, I don’t know.

也许我再次放松了,我不知道。

Pragga and Gukesh both have taken some of the tough times recently quite well and come out of it.

Pragga 和 Gukesh 最近都很好地度过了一些困难时期并摆脱了困境。

Now they’re both going gangbusters, and that’s great, but they’ve had difficult times as well.

现在他们都表现出色,这很好,但他们也经历过困难时期。

There are things I look for on the chessboard, a sense that they understand a lot of stuff without having to .

我在棋盘上寻找一些东西,一种他们不需要理解就能理解很多东西的感觉。

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Just like I mentioned earlier, they know where the pieces go.

就像我之前提到的,他们知道碎片的去向。

If I look at their games, I can quickly get a sense of which area they’re focused in.

如果我看他们的比赛,我就能很快了解他们专注于哪个领域。

Some of them have no understanding of chess at all, but they have amazing sporting qualities, which is that they’re tenacious, they’re able to keep resisting.

他们中的一些人根本不懂国际象棋,但他们却有着令人惊叹的体育品质,那就是他们顽强,能够不断抵抗。

You can see that they don’t have this dip of being annoyed with themselves about the position and therefore their performance goes down.

你可以看到,他们并没有因为这个职位而对自己感到恼火,因此他们的表现会下降。

If anything, they are still finding only moves.

如果说有什么不同的话,那就是他们仍然只找到了动作。

They’re still hanging in there.

他们还挂在那里。

Some things like this will alert me to some sporting qualities, but the chess qualities, I think, I look for first.

像这样的事情会提醒我一些体育素质,但我认为,我首先寻找的是国际象棋素质。

If not, I wonder, “They don’t have this.

如果没有,我想知道,“他们没有这个。

What could they possibly bring to the table that compensates for it?” Then I realize, ah, they have these other sporting qualities, maybe even their fitness, their ability to hang in there, things like that.

他们能带来什么来弥补这一点?”然后我意识到,啊,他们有其他的运动素质,甚至可能是他们的身体素质,他们坚持下去的能力,诸如此类的东西。

COWEN

Last question, where’s the best place to eat in Chennai?

最后一个问题,钦奈最好的吃饭地点是哪里?

ANAND

You should go to some of these Udupi homes, and we have some places where they serve traditional South Indian breakfast.

您应该去一些 Udupi 之家,我们有一些地方供应传统的南印度早餐。

I think that, and not in the bigger places.

我认为,而且不是在更大的地方。

COWEN

Murugan Idli I went to, that was very good.

我去了 Murugan Idli,那非常好。

Do you know it?

你知道吗?

ANAND

Yes, Murugan Idli is very good.

是的,Murugan Idli 非常好。

There are some nice Udupi joints.

有一些不错的 Udupi 关节。

There’s Matsya — you can try that.

Matsya ——你可以试试。

The old Dasa chain as well.

老Dasa连锁店也是如此。

There used to be something called Dasaprakash.

曾经有一种叫做 Dasaprakash 的东西。

That’s nice.

那很好。

For me, it’s almost a childhood thing, literally.

对我来说,这几乎是童年的事情。

That’s how we used to snack, really.

这就是我们以前吃零食的方式,真的。

Besides that, someplace with a good thali gives you, I think, a good sampling of everything in both South Indian and Indian cuisine.

除此之外,我认为,拥有优质塔利的地方可以让您品尝到南印度和印度美食的所有美食。

COWEN

Vishy Anand, thank you very much.

维希·阿南德,非常感谢你。

ANAND

Thank you.

谢谢。

A pleasure.

很高兴。

Special thanks to Nabeel Qureshi for his help with the video and transcript.

特别感谢 Nabeel Qureshi 对视频和文字记录的帮助。