Is Stockfish really better than all these human chess coaches?

[Uri]

Is Stockfish really better than chess teachers like Igor Smirnov, Robert Ris, Valeri Lilov, Adrian Mikhalchisin, Ruslan Ponomariov, Herman Grooten, Simon Williams, Sergery Karjakin and Gary Kasparov?

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Is Stockfish really better than chess teachers like Igor Smirnov, Robert Ris, Valeri Lilov, Adrian Mikhalchisin, Ruslan Ponomariov, Herman Grooten, Simon Williams, Sergery Karjakin and Gary Kasparov?

Stockfish is not a coach. Most people cannot understand its move choices.

Better question: are humans better chess coaches than chess coaching software?

The answer: it depends!

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Is Stockfish really better than chess teachers like Igor Smirnov, Robert Ris, Valeri Lilov, Adrian Mikhalchisin, Ruslan Ponomariov, Herman Grooten, Simon Williams, Sergery Karjakin and Gary Kasparov?

Stockfish is a lot better at playing chess than all of them together.
Stockfish was not designed to teach you chess. It is not a chess teacher.

Of course many players successfully use Stockfish and other engines as tools to analyse games including their own games (and to prepare openings). Stockfish can be used as an "oracle", telling you what are the best moves in any given position. Thanks to Stockfish and other engines with superhuman abilities, the level of play in human chess has gone up tremendously.

In the past Russian players were generally superior because Russia had an efficient system of chess coaching and easy access to information. Today this advantage has completely disappeared, which is why Russian players no longer stand out. Instead, there are very young miracle kids popping up all over the world.

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Is Stockfish really better than chess teachers like Igor Smirnov, Robert Ris, Valeri Lilov, Adrian Mikhalchisin, Ruslan Ponomariov, Herman Grooten, Simon Williams, Sergery Karjakin and Gary Kasparov?

This is really not a very intelligent question.

What does "better" mean? What are you even talking about?

Because we all know that a 3800 Elo engine is *stronger* at playing chess than these guys.

But could Stockfish explain to a class of 8 year olds why material matters in some positions and doesn't in others.

Could Stockfish explain to a class of 8 year olds why rook endings can be drawn - even if you're a pawn down - as long as the pawns are on the same side of the board?

So what are you even referring to? Better at *what*?