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"Everybody can appreciate a good painting or a delicate piece of music. It is part of our deeper brain-system , it's as natural to us as having the ability to speak and to walk (or breath). It 
is all about our sensors , eyes and ears , and our motors , legs and arms.
Appreciating a nice math or phys-formula or a nice chess-position or a chess-combination is only possible when you are educated,specialized in the subject. It is not a natural thing . Learning to swim is easier than learning to play chess or solve a differential equation.
There is beauty in math , just look at Eulers equation : e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0 . It contains and relates all the primary numbers of math. 0 (Zero Murray) , 1 , pi(3.14) and e(2.71) and the imaginary number i .
There is beauty in phys too , look at Einsteins equation : E = mc^2 , very simple , but very deep philosophicaly .
And there is beauty in chess , often also because of the deep philosophics behind the position or combination.
People use pattern recognition , they do less good in calculus. Chess engines use brute-force calculations , but up to now they are fairly bad in pattern recognition. An interesting field for engine-designers. You can say that humans use a parallel processor (brain) and that engines use a serial processor." pelly1
"Everybody can appreciate a good painting or a delicate piece of music. It is part of our deeper brain-system , it's as natural to us as having the ability to speak and to walk (or breath). It is all about our sensors , eyes and ears , and our motors , legs and arms.
Appreciating a nice math or phys-formula or a nice chess-position or a chess-combination is only possible when you are educated,specialized in the subject. It is not a natural thing . Learning to swim is easier than learning to play chess or solve a differential equation.
There is beauty in math , just look at Eulers equation : e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0 . It contains and relates all the primary numbers of math. 0 (Zero Murray) , 1 , pi(3.14) and e(2.71) and the imaginary number i .
There is beauty in phys too , look at Einsteins equation : E = mc^2 , very simple , but very deep philosophicaly .
And there is beauty in chess , often also because of the deep philosophics behind the position or combination.
People use pattern recognition , they do less good in calculus. Chess engines use brute-force calculations , but up to now they are fairly bad in pattern recognition. An interesting field for engine-designers. You can say that humans use a parallel processor (brain) and that engines use a serial processor." pelly1