INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE GRANDMASTER

Title created by FIDE in 1953 and awarded annually by ICCF and approved by FIDE.

There was a moment at the beginning when the machines were a positive, but lately we’ve being passing to the other extreme. Now it seems that a move isn’t good unless the machine says so. Veselin Topalov
2016
Some players lose ability to think independently and rely on computers completely. Lajos Portisch
2012
” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!” Tigran Petrosian
After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match. Boris Spassky (1974)
With the modern computer age, there are some new ideas, but the principles are basically the same… I try not to over-focus on preparation. Magnus Carlsen
2012

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