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Subject: Re: Deep Blue Jr on ICC

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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