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Subject: Re: Chess Genius: The rodney dangerfield of chess programs?

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 04:23:29 10/21/99

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On October 21, 1999 at 05:07:09, odell hall wrote:

>Chess Genius no longer gets "any respect". What happened to this once highly
>celebrated program? I remember when I first got interested in computer chess
>(1992) it was the rage of the times. Has richard lang lost his interest in
>producing the best programs, or have other surpassed his talent? By the way why
>doesn't lang post here? I personally think genius3 is a very good and solid
>program.

All successes are eventually overwhelmed by greater successes.

The programming techniques Richard Lang used to great effect in the late 80's
and early 90's are no longer competitive.

Ah well - he's still a household name in the chess community...

Graham



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