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

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 23:14:16 10/21/97

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On October 21, 1997 at 19:25:22, Carsten Kossendey wrote:

>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

Or he might have read my message posted last week, where I referred to a
PC version that way, and called the other "Son of DB" out of deference
to Amir. I think it's a better name, anyway, and Amir definitely has
dibs on Junior.

kp



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