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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