Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 08:18:43 10/09/99
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> "They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Einstein. But they also > laughed at Bozo the Clown." Berliner, who was a world champion in postal chess, as well as a recognized name in computer chess, would be closer to the former than the latter. When a person of his stature claims something in his field of expertise that the prevailing wisdom of the day claims is ridiculous, the situation is usually due to failure to communicate. He may have expressed his ideas in a bombastic way, and while I didn't read his particular book, I am sure he has seen some greater regularity or pattern in chess game than conventional wisdom recognizes, and carried away by a genuine discovery he may have exaggerated in expressing it. I wouldn't discard that type of work wholesale just because he stretched it out a bit.
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