Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:48:34 10/18/99
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On October 18, 1999 at 02:30:51, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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 hasn't played a game for a really really long time. It logged on for a short >time, probably during 1996 as you suggest, but I don't believe it played any >games. > >I've been doing ICC since late 1994 and I don't believe it has played a game >since I've been around. > >At that time I started, 2650 would have been an outrageous blitz rating. >Commercial micros running on P5/90's were doing in the 2500's to low 2600's, and >really strong GM's were getting into the mid-2600's before being dragged back >into the 2500's. > >Over time the high end stretched out, until now a GM can go over 3000. > >But at the time I started, scratchy was at 2871, which is beyond amazing. There >was *nothing* that could have approached that rating in early 1995. > >I wish I had seen it play, but I didn't. The little bit of evidence that I see >left over is really incredible though. > >bruce It did play a couple of games 3-4 years ago or so. It was going to do some sort of GM match, but it somehow didn't work out. But I watched it play Danny Sleator (darooha) a game that ended as expected... I think it also played an IM named "Buzzo". They were simply testing the interface. I talked to Murray during the 'testing' but never found out why the GM match didn't happen online. I noticed because ROBOAdmin sshouts something about "A SuperComputer game has started..."
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