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Subject: Re: Deep Blue gets crushed by Ferret.

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 13:05:14 01/25/03

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On January 25, 2003 at 15:29:45, pavel wrote:

>I was just browsing the web looking for Computer Chess programming related
>articles, and than I bumped into this:
>
>http://sccs.muldermedia.de/
>
>Quote:
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>"If ask whether Ferret could crush Deep Blue, my answer was yes, if it was
>dropped out of an airplane. With the new machine [quad Xeon], it would only need
>to be dropped five or six stories, which is progress of a sort."
>(Bruce Morland on CCC)
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>I never read it on the forum, but it's a good one. :)

I said this "live" on ICC, probably during the second DB-Kasparov match.  I
believe that I said "Ferret could crush DB", and then in a following tell, "If
you dropped it out of an airplane".

I think someone was amused enough by this that they tried to turn it into a
"quote".

bruce



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