Chess engines and chess books
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I’m currently reading Chess College: Strategy by Efstratios Grivas. I enjoy reading the book and decided to follow along by using the engine on chess.com, upon doing this I noticed that some positions that Grivas claims are winning seem to be in fact losing, is this just because chess engines have improved astronomically in the past decade? I’m split because I think the book is good but the engine says otherwise, is my book outdated and should I stop studying it?
It's up to you. Me, I have never cared what engines "think." I know that computer software is infinitely smarter than me and most humans, but I'm old and old fashioned. I began playing chess long before the personal computer was invented. I care about what human beings think when they play. There's a famous photo of Botvinnik playing someone or another, and whenever I see it, I wonder and wonder what was going through his mind. Those old photos---Tal, Fischer, Capablanca, Spassky--inspire me to study and play this beautiful game.