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Subject: Re: Why not Shredder in Bilbao??

Author: Ingo Bauer

Date: 04:23:25 10/11/04

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On October 10, 2004 at 20:15:04, Steve Glanzfeld wrote:

>On October 10, 2004 at 19:04:13, Derek Paquette wrote:
>
>>(...)
>>or there is probably another reason.
>
>AFAIK they initially wanted Shredder (with Hydra and Fritz), but then Junior won
>the Comp's World Championship, so they preferred Junior over Shredder. As far as
>I did understand, replacing Fritz by Junior was not an option, because it is
>*the* main product of one of the sponsor companies in spain (AFAIK a chess
>software distibutor or something similar).

IIRC Bilbao with exactly these participants was anounced ahead of Ramat Gan.

Ingo Bauer



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