What impact have computers had on chess, chess play, and chess players (amateur and professional?) There are few on earth more qualified to speak to that topic than the current World Champion, Vishwanathan Anand, in this video.

Anand points out how computers have been the great leveller: Chess is no longer buried in musty tomes. Now Chess resides in live databases on the Web and in the powerful software we all can use to analyze our ideas.

Richard Réti (1889-1929) pointed out that in Chess, we have an abstract portrait of the intellectual struggle of humankind. To examine how human players adapt to the impact of computer chess is a likely model for understanding how humanity at large adapts to computers in general.