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

Author: blass uri

Date: 10:45:17 10/22/99

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On October 22, 1999 at 11:27:00, Jonathan Lee wrote:

>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

How do you know?
I expect big improvements in Junior,Rebel and tiger.

Uri



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