Author: Howard Exner
Date: 16:17:19 10/12/99
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On October 12, 1999 at 17:47:12, Bruce Moreland wrote: >Regarding DB Jr in Paderborn, the thing was running over the net on a machine >out in the lobby, and I believe that what happened is that a few people were >taking laptops out there. > >I was invited to do this by one of the other programmers, which was a very nice >offer, and I declined. > >The idea didn't appeal to me at the time, and I wasn't able to express at the >time why I didn't want to mess with the thing. It is still difficult for me to >say. At that time were you made aware of the Hsu/Campbell request of prohibiting computer play against Deep Blue Junior? > >I think that I would rather play their best version, or at least a version that >I can describe accurately after the game, rather than play some computer museum >dinky-ass lobby version. Also, was it made public by those given permission to demonstate Deep Blue Junior that this was a "dumbed down version" ? These seem to be the main points made by Hsu/Campbell, that it was a "dumbed down version"(much like one sees on the chess servers with Crafty, where it is called Dumbo, Dorkus, Dingbat ... as opposed to the Real Crafty running at full throttle) that was prohibited to play against other computers.
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