The Humanity of Chess

One thing I would like to comment on with regards to chess. Is blunders, mistakes and errors in chess. And comment on the incredulity that goes along with it among commentators and audiences that a human being can make mistakes. With the chess engine whirring a way in the background mistakes appear elementary. The chess engine easily exposes the mistake. However when we play we all know how easy it is to make mistakes and the unique thing with chess is that anyone may make mistakes. These mistakes may, or may not be punished. The current example of failure to spot a mistake, is Karjakin's failure to spot the drawing line in game 10 of the world chess championship.

As I have said before to err is to be human. Without errors chess would be boring. The ability to handle errors. To spot them when they happen. Handling them. Having the ability to respond to these set backs correctly. Errors and the failure or success in spotting these mistakes makes chess exciting. Who will come out on top. Who will make the least amount of errors? Who will spot the errors in the opponents moves first. Exciting. As Garry Kasparov once said in an interview, its not necessarily the person who makes the initial mistake who loses but the person who makes the final mistake that loses.

So I do get exasperated sometimes, at the use of "sensational" and "mind blowing" as ways to describe mistakes. But he is the world champion he should be chess perfection he shouldn't be accident prone? Oh yes he can be.

Even I can beat him if he plays such moves. The answer as always is go ahead and try.