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Subject: Re: Does anyone have any Information on Icc's Scratchy?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:44:30 10/18/99

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On October 18, 1999 at 01:59:50, odell hall wrote:

> Hi
>
>  I read a post here where someone said that Scratchy was deep thought2.
>I went to Icc to research this, but there are no finger notes, only a C on the
>account. I notice that the last Log in was in 1996, which i believe is around
>the time deepthought was active. If in fact this Scratchy is infact deepthought2
>does anyone know what machine it was playing on, is this the Real deepthought or
>is it some dumbed down version?


It was the 'real' deep thought of that era, searching maybe 3M nodes per second,
as DT did in ACM events.  It used an automatic interface (perhaps xboard, I
don't know for sure). It was strong as hell as its win/lose record shows.



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