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Subject: Very good point, Bruce! :)

Author: Shep

Date: 16:19:57 04/21/01

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On April 21, 2001 at 15:34:14, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On April 21, 2001 at 06:07:21, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>>Brain Games Network originally invited the world's top four programs: IBM's
>>Deep Blue, Shredder, Fritz and Junior. Fritz and Junior have accepted the
>>invitation while IBM have declined. Everyone at BGN would be delighted and
>>honoured if the Shredder team would reconsider their original decision and
>>agree to compete.
>
>I would like to ask exactly what was offered to Deep Blue.  Did you offer to
>allow them to bring their whole machine, or did you offer to allow them to port
>it to a quad PC?

... or was there an additional stipulation that, should DB participate, the
other participants would have to port their programs to the RS/6000 cluster?

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Shep



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