Author: Jack van Rijswijck
Date: 14:49:33 10/20/97
The playoff for the Dutch chess championship between Jan Timman and Pedrag Nikolic started today. Special guests were two members of the Deep Blue team. There was a blurb about it on TV, but as it goes with chess on TV, it was a very short blurb, so I didn't get as much information as I would have liked. They brought "Baby Blue" with them, which calculates about 16 million NPS. It was happily crunching away in front of the TV camera, but alas, I couldn't make out anything other than the well-known xboard interface. There was a short interview with Joe Hoane, who said that they felt that DB could get even stronger, both where knowledge and calculating force are concerned. That's all very nice, but the shocker was mentioned casually by the TV anchor man after the interview. Tomorrow, Tuesday Oct. 21st, the DB team are finally going to disclose their files and rebut Kasparov's allegations. Stay tuned! (For those of you who happen to receive Dutch TV and read this in time: Studio NOS, dinsdag 23:00, Nederland 2). Jack van Rijswijck javhar@plex.nl jvr@sysaid.nl
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