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Subject: Re: Field for WCCC 9

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 10:06:59 03/22/99

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On March 22, 1999 at 05:41:01, Bert Seifriz wrote:

>On March 22, 1999 at 04:58:36, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
>>Chess Wizard, the French Champion I think, isn't there.
>>No Deep Blue either, no great surprise IBM but disappointing all the same.
>>
>A big surprise for me is that people cannot stop asking for DEEP BLUE.
>I have read at least 50 times around here and in other newsgroups
>that DEEP BLUE's hardware was disassembled into single parts
>which lie rusting in a dark storage room with mothballs and spiderwebs.
>Why has this fact still not reached the highest mountain top
>and the deepest valley? So you will never see DEEP BLUE again!

Deep Blue, or more likely 'Baby Blue' could easily be reassembled.  I mean Baby
Blue, which I think is basically just a work station with a single board
containing four of the special purpose chess chips, would be trivial for them to
put together.  It would still contain a MASSIVE amount of chess horsepower.

I guess the reason they aren't showing up is that IBM doesn't want to risk any
negative publicity (like last time when they lost to Fritz).

>
>What interests me: where did you get the participants list from?

It was posted to all participants by the ICCA.

>Kind regards, Bert



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