Author: Jack van Rijswijck
Date: 00:04:21 10/22/97
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On October 22, 1997 at 02:14:16, Keith Ian Price wrote: >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). > >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. *bzzzzt*, The Thin Ice, from The Wall. But as it turns out, it actually *was* referred to as "Baby Blue, otherwise known as Deep Blue Junior". It defeated Dutch GM Hans Bohm for the occasion, but he spends most of his time being a TV personality these days, rather than playing competitive chess. As it also turns out, there was no real news after all. Not on the TV news item anyway. Campbell and Hoane answered some of the big questions: they did publish the printouts for several moves that were questioned; they will "in due time" publish everything (logs, printouts, description of DB) in scientific journals; and regarding a possible rematch Murray Campbell said that "there are no plans for it at the moment, but that doesn't mean that there won't be one". Sorry about the false alarm there. In any case it is clear that, indeed, DB is not retired. They did zoom in on Baby Blue's screen while it was calculating, and now I know why they said "you don't want to see that" (the raw printouts). It looked worse than my own program running in maximum verbose debug mode. (: Jack van Rijswijck javhar@plex.nl jvr@sysaid.nl
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