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

Author: James Robertson

Date: 09:22:14 10/18/99

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On October 18, 1999 at 05:29:16, Peter McKenzie 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 was pretty well accepted that this thing was a version of deep thought.  If
>you search back through the archives of rec.games.chess (this was before
>rec.games.chess.computer, when Hsu used to post things) you will see it played
>matches vs a few grand masters. From memory it gave them a thrashing in blitz.
>
>I personally played a single blitz game against the thing, but unfortunately
>didn't keep the score.  I'm not even sure when I played it, either 1992 or 1993
>I think.  Of course I lost my game, but thats not so bad considering scratchy's
>rated blitz record of +141 =4 -1.
>
>Peter

Who was the lucky winner?

James



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