Author: Amir Ban
Date: 03:30:13 10/21/97
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On October 20, 1997 at 17:49:33, Jack van Rijswijck wrote: >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, Did they really use this new name ? Did they ever refer to it as DB Junior ? >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). > Very interesting. Public opinion does work sometime. I'll repeat what I said that I will buy any reasonable explanation they care to give. What I was unwilling to accept is silence and evasion. Please report to us the details when you have them. Amir > >Jack van Rijswijck >javhar@plex.nl >jvr@sysaid.nl
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