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

Author: Sally Weltrop

Date: 13:39:34 02/19/03

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On February 19, 2003 at 16:37:08, Sally Weltrop wrote:

>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

In fact why would raise such a ruckus over it in CCC some months back and then
"put a carrot in front of our mouths" and then you cannot dl it? Probably a PR
move to get the name established.
>>
>>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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