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

Author: Jonathan Lee

Date: 08:27:00 10/22/99

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Chess Genius 6 is about double the cost than Fritz 5.32 and others; that's sad.

I remember the game show Family Feud, and the asked who are the best geniuses?
They are Einstein, Edison, Da Vinci, (and Alexander Graham Bell?).  I would like
to have Richard Lang to be one of them.

Yes, Lang has (extremely most probably) changed the landscape of Eastern
European chess.  Russia's official sport relies directly or indirectly on Lang's
tactics.

Competition and change of computers are rather rapid these days.  There may have
been "reverse engineering" of a dozen software companies to equal Lang's code.
In America, it is hard to copyright any software; after all it is all zeros and
ones.

If one had FischeRandom or other chess variants, Lang would be the starting
point.  Then, they would add an opening library along the way.

There will be software improvements on chess code, but the changes won't be as
large as the early 1990's.
Jonathan



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