Kevin Wampler wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> I guess the thing is that technical details aren't very interesting in 
>> a movie...
> 
> It's not quite a counterexample, but I found that the anime Hikaru No Go 
> was quite interesting despite going into at least a bit of technical 
> detail about go.  Can't think of any examples with mathematics though, 
> but I bet it's possible.  Perhaps part of the reason that it's easier to 
> do in a TV series than a movie is that it takes a lot of time to explain 
> even the basics of more technical subjects if you're audience isn't 
> already familiar with it.

Go is a strange game - the rules are vastly simpler than Chess, and yet 
the resulting game is vastly *more complicated*.

Having said that, whether I play Chess or Go, the computer always beats 
me, every single time. [Except that one time I found an algorithmic flaw 
in the AI for Go. But that hardly seems like "winning"...]

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