Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 01:04:30 10/14/02
In the log-files of the ICC hour with Feng Hsiung Hsu the following passages can be found: > EeEk(* DM) kibitzes: I heard that Fritz did > play a match against Deep Blue in Hong Kong > 1995,according to one of the Fritz programmers, > is this not true? > CrazyBird(DM) kibitzes: > false advertisement. deep blue does not exist > until 1996. the new chip was not completed > until january 1996... > > ... > > EeEk(* DM) kibitzes: question from oddg: Back to > the WC 1995, There was an entry with the name > Deep Blue (Fritz won against DB), did it not have > any relations to your Deep Blue? (EeEk: any idea > how Deep Blue's name got in there, is this > completely false?) > CrazyBird(DM) kibitzes: deep blue did not play in > 1995, since it did not exist yet. > it was just deliberate relabeling on the part of > commercial vendors, for obvious reasons. I had a look back into the June 1995 issue of the ICCA Journal and found the following data which might clearify things: * On p.97ff the contestants of the Hong Kong World Championship are described. One of them is "Deep Blue Prototype by Feng-Hsiung Hsu, ..." * On p.102 the Final Standings are given, with "Pos.3 DEEP BLUE USA ...." * On p.130 of the same issue there is an announcement: "The ACM Chess Challenge World Champon Kasparov to play IBM's DEEP BLUE" In this announcement it reads "DEEP BLUE is being developed at the IBM ... by Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Murray Campbell and Joe Hoane, under the supervision of Chung-Jen Tan. An earlier version of the system won the 1994 ACM International Computer Chess Championship at Cape May, New Jersey." So, the name "Deep Blue (Prototype)" was not a "deliberate relabeling on the part of commercial vendors" but the official name in 1995. Ingo Althofer.
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