Quote: PhQnix @ July 6 2008, 6:26 PM BSTTechnically zooo has to be right. What with being a deity an all that...
Oh ladedadeda. 
God does not play dice with the universe. Page 3
Quote: dannyjb1 @ July 6 2008, 5:20 PM BSTI think to keep them on thier toes they should replac pieces every few years and give them crazy new moves...
Like the 3-D Chess in Star Trek.
Some company tried to market it I seem to remember.
Quote: David Chapman @ July 6 2008, 7:26 PM BSTLike the 3-D Chess in Star Trek.
Some company tried to market it I seem to remember.
Failing?
Quote: zooo @ July 6 2008, 6:25 PM BSTNo.
TOP TRUMPS!God has people like Gandhi and Mother Theresa on his cards, playing Satan, who has people like Hitler and Vernon Kay.
LOOOOOOOL.
I think genius exists but it's not about what you know, it's all about what you DO with what you know.
Anyone can learn but it's the ability to combine those learned items in ways to create something new that is the divider between genius and ordinary. That's why composers can be classed as genii because they take the past canon of music and create new structures; whereas a covers band, although technically superb, aren't genii because they're only replicating what they've learned. Any monkey can be taught to play, but it's genius which creates the material to play. Same goes for any other field of knowledge.
I think Newton remarked that he was "standing on the shoulders of giants". It was a two-edged comment. He was having a sly dig at a short rival who had earlier claimed Newton's recognition was partly due to him, plus he was acknowledging that all intellectual progress relies on previous work.
Surely the game is Poker? That's why cigars were invented.
Quote: Winterlight @ July 6 2008, 2:21 PM BSTWhat is a polymath though? Very talented? Very genius? Hmmmm.
A parrot that can do sums.
Quote: SlagA @ July 7 2008, 1:02 PM BSTI think genius exists but it's not about what you know, it's all about what you DO with what you know.
Anyone can learn but it's the ability to combine those learned items in ways to create something new that is the divider between genius and ordinary. That's why composers can be classed as genii because they take the past canon of music and create new structures; whereas a covers band, although technically superb, aren't genii because they're only replicating what they've learned. Any monkey can be taught to play, but it's genius which creates the material to play. Same goes for any other field of knowledge.
That's exactly the point I was making.
Mozart may have practised day after day for so many years, but so have many other musicians throughout history, but they are not remembered and celebrated.
In fact, Mozart's music is famously much easier to master than so many of his contemporaries - it's its beauty and melodic complexity, as opposed to technical complexity, that makes it genious.
Quote: Graham Bandage @ July 7 2008, 1:05 PM BSTA parrot that can do sums.
You ARE David Chapman and I claim my fiver!
"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."
Neil Gaiman
Geniuses translate humanity and or the world we live in to us lesser mortals.
Quote: David Chapman @ July 6 2008, 7:26 PM BSTLike the 3-D Chess in Star Trek.
Some company tried to market it I seem to remember.
3D chess has been around for a long time, as far as I am aware. Long before Star Trek existed.
Geniussssss tend to be people who find something that us mere mortals find exceedingly difficult and make it seem easy. Then they work on that to take it to the next level and then the next and so on. Why? Cos they can. We all like doing things we're good at. I'm really good at taking a shit. So I do it a lot.
Quote: billwill @ July 7 2008, 1:43 PM BST3D chess has been around for a long time, as far as I am aware. Long before Star Trek existed.
Do you mean long before Star Trek because being a long way in the future it hasn't really happened yet?
Quote: Simon Stratton @ July 6 2008, 12:00 AM BST....while the rest of us masterbated over the girl/boy next door....
Quote: Timbo @ July 6 2008, 12:02 AM BSTThat's a messy image.
But 11/10 for range and accuracy!