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Subject: Re: Let the conspiracy theories begin...

Author: Sally Weltrop

Date: 13:37:08 02/19/03

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On February 19, 2003 at 15:06:13, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On February 19, 2003 at 13:59:52, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On February 19, 2003 at 12:15:02, Johan Hutting wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~IPCCC/IPCCC2003/participants.html shows 2
>>>participants missing. Deep9 is one of them, I wonder what happened to him (and
>>>the other missing program)
>>>
>>>Are there any details regarding them not playing?
>>
>>I remember that he had a bad hardware failure a little while ago.  Maybe he
>>could not resurrect his program in time.  I think he had some of the source code
>>saved at least, but I believe he was reworking part of it and maybe he had some
>>difficulties.
>>
>>At any rate, it looks like an interesting program and I think he is a promising
>>programmer.  We will see his program in the near future, I think.
>
>Isn't that the same guy who was going to play in CCT5, and withdrew, and who
>made a website with his program available for download, and the links
>mysteriously didn't work, and now he does a sign up and no show at this
>tournament too? I recall Vincent making a big deal about this when his website
>didn't work, about how we've heard about this program for a while, and there's
>never been any evidence it exists, and now this. Hmm...

yeap, same guy. I just went on their now and tried to dl the engine, ALL O byte
zipfiles
>
>Here is the website thread: http://ccc.it.ro/search/ccc.php?find_thread=272876
>
>Is there any evidence that this engine exists?



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