Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 14:56:03 01/07/99
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On January 07, 1999 at 13:47:37, alfred palang wrote: >like any endeavor, it is work, work, patience and lots of >patience....will...unfailing will and determination. Hi Alfred: I would like things were just simple like that. Yes, hard work is a key as Christophe has said and yes, you can see improvements of great importance along a long time from a basic idea and even you can see new ideas nurturing from old ones, BUT as much you reach certain age you will detect that your new ideas are not so new after all, are derivations from the first one, maybe a lot better derivations, but derivations after all and finally you cannot go out from a certain frame of mind that most of the time you not even feel as part of yoursef. That's the reason people that has been long time working in a field suddenly discover with surpirse that the most simple different approaches were at one inch of distance of his eyes and they never saw them because they were ouit of his frame of mind. Of course, I repeat, you can take of your garden and get good fruits years after years, but it will be more or less the same kind of fruiots, nothing really new. What Enrique told of his friend I have heard elsewhere. I do not know until which degree chess programming approacjh nmore harder sciences in this, probably there is in it a strong component of craft work that makes a bidg difference, BUT the sad suspicion remains: chess programmers, as we do as writers or maths or surgeons, are limited, emprisoned inside oirselves and so we reach sooner or later the bottom of our effort. The rest is a noisy silence. Fernando
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