Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:56:52 10/18/00
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On October 18, 2000 at 05:44:36, Andrew Williams wrote: >My apologies if this is old news. > >There was an account called DeepBlueJr watching Kramnik-Kasparov, game 6 >on ICC last night. The finger notes said the owner was Murray Campbell >(a couple of the admins stated that it was indeed DeepBlueJr). I asked >him what exactly he was using and he said that it was a 24-processor >version attached to a R/6000. He said the processors were the same ones >that ran in the Deeper Blue that beat Kasparov. I asked him what NPS he >was getting and he said "looks like 28M" (!). I also asked him what sorts >of depths it was searching, but he didn't answer. Another thing he didn't >answer was my suggestion that he join CCT2 :-) > >The program wasn't kibitzing automatically like crafty does, but he was >occasionally cutting and pasting the analysis into channel 211. This was >around the time that Kramnik was on top, before the win seemed to slip >away from him. > >Andrew > >PS Just in case anyone was wondering, I asked him if he minded my reporting >this conversation here and he was quite happy for me to do so. I was surprised, too. But I did chat with him a good bit and am convinced that it was Murray. I will try to bug him a bit about CCT2, but I have a suspicion that IBM won't allow public exhibitions like that...
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