Author: Erik Bergren
Date: 11:34:56 08/28/03
In regards to Computers on chess and music: I think there will be a pheonomonom in music similar to painting: VanGogh's paintings are interesting to look at, and so is the computer's "Mandlebrot set". Thus: in music, computers should also be able to bring out the amusing mathematical intracacies inherent in sound just as they did ( with Mandlebrot's help) in "painting". That connection would imply that copying great composers is the wrong start (and I believe so). In both painting and Chess, computers accomplished the most when programmed in a way largely separate from the methods of the greatest human models. Resently, computers must be programmed with typical human positional methods, to play better. However that does not aply to painting and music because they are built from natural structures (implying equations simplify it), where as: Chess has an unpure structure, meaning that an equation to solve how to always draw with Black, would be (approximately) as difficult to handle as storing the calculated (by "brute force") solution (do to symmetry breaking rules such as "enpassent" which help to make the game hard).
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