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Subject: Re: Deep Blue team to disclose their files.

Author: Carsten Kossendey

Date: 16:25:22 10/21/97

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On October 21, 1997 at 07:07:36, Jack van Rijswijck wrote:

>On October 21, 1997 at 06:30:13, Amir Ban wrote:
>>On October 20, 1997 at 17:49:33, Jack van Rijswijck wrote:
>>
>>>[...] They brought "Baby Blue" with them,
>>
>>Did they really use this new name ? Did they ever refer to it as DB
>>Junior ?
>
>I don't remember exactly. It might be a subconscious interference from
>a Pink Floyd lyric on my part. (:  The name was only mentioned by the
>interviewer anyway, and I'm not sure he knew what he was talking about.

[snip]

I did waste quite some time to recall what song you were referring to,
but anyhow, another possible explanation where the name "Baby Blue"
might have come from is the Book "Schach am PC" by Steinwender/Friedel
where it is used in a footnote on page 95 (referring to a 20 chip
version of DB).

Regards,

Carsten



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