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Jan Gustafsson is a 33-year old German grandmaster. I became aware of him from the game this year in which he was beaten by Kramnik with a King’s Indian. (Sparkassen C.M.)
Two years ago he went into training to rise from a rating in the top hundred to one in the top twenty. Alas, in the latest rating list, he appears to have dropped out of the top hundred.
From his web page he appears to have a good sense of humor and endeared himself to me by writing that he has a chess book addiction. He recommends these to the young player: Mikhail Shereshevsky – Endgame Strategy, Mikhail Tal – Life and Games, Gary Kasparov – My Great Predecessors (among others), Boris Avrukh 1. d4 and Andrei Volokitin – Perfect Your Chess.
On June 19, 2012 he conducted an unusual clock simultaneous display at the 27th International Supercomputer Conference in Hamburg. Sixteen participants were split into two groups of eight people. After every three moves, Gustafsson’s opponents received a variation from the Houdini chess program sent to them on their mobile phones.
The combination of amateur players and the chess program was thought to create a healthy balance and a real battle for Gustafsson.
Nevertheless, Gustafsson convincingly won both rounds in the end, the first with 6.5:1.5 points, the second with 6:2.
As far as I know, none of the games have been reported and there is some confusion in the accounts as to when the amateurs received their variations (i.e. every two or every three moves). I believe they made up their own minds whether to use them or not.
The exhibition received a great deal of interest and Jan might do another at the ISC in Leipzig, June 2013.
If anyone has any more details on the above or comments, I would like to read them.
Links:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8328
http://chess-news.ru/en/node/8071
http://chess-news.ru/en/node/8210
http://www.jan-gustafsson.de/nc/jans-kolumne/
Two years ago he went into training to rise from a rating in the top hundred to one in the top twenty. Alas, in the latest rating list, he appears to have dropped out of the top hundred.
From his web page he appears to have a good sense of humor and endeared himself to me by writing that he has a chess book addiction. He recommends these to the young player: Mikhail Shereshevsky – Endgame Strategy, Mikhail Tal – Life and Games, Gary Kasparov – My Great Predecessors (among others), Boris Avrukh 1. d4 and Andrei Volokitin – Perfect Your Chess.
On June 19, 2012 he conducted an unusual clock simultaneous display at the 27th International Supercomputer Conference in Hamburg. Sixteen participants were split into two groups of eight people. After every three moves, Gustafsson’s opponents received a variation from the Houdini chess program sent to them on their mobile phones.
The combination of amateur players and the chess program was thought to create a healthy balance and a real battle for Gustafsson.
Nevertheless, Gustafsson convincingly won both rounds in the end, the first with 6.5:1.5 points, the second with 6:2.
As far as I know, none of the games have been reported and there is some confusion in the accounts as to when the amateurs received their variations (i.e. every two or every three moves). I believe they made up their own minds whether to use them or not.
The exhibition received a great deal of interest and Jan might do another at the ISC in Leipzig, June 2013.
If anyone has any more details on the above or comments, I would like to read them.
Links:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=8328
http://chess-news.ru/en/node/8071
http://chess-news.ru/en/node/8210
http://www.jan-gustafsson.de/nc/jans-kolumne/