Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 06:33:48 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. It seems to me that you lose interest in something in the very same moment you are aware your talent has reached a wall and/or other people is doing better in the same field. You never lose interest if you are the top guy or at laest you feel there is something more to do, but eventually in any area of science or arts you reach the wall. No matter what optimistic things can be said about the infinite scope of the mind of a creative person, truth is it has limits. Sometimes it does not matter, as in art, because inside that limits you can get new interesting works: Hayd composed one simohny after another following the same patterns and each of them, although similar, was enough different to be interesting. The same witn painters, novelist, etc. BUT in sciences or technology there is a big difference: AN OBJETIVE MEASURE OF perfomance and superiority. That is the reason we feel dissapointed when after each version of Genius after G4 we get almost he same thing; it does not suffice the "artistic difference" here, but elo points or whatever. Conclusion: Lang felt he had exhausted his really creative ideas and so went to another field. Thats is an intelligent thing to do. Fernando Fernando
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