From: Eric Scott (Hadley Records) -- Sent by DB
Subject: programmers - simple souls??
Date: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:04 AM

I was reading in the paper about Grand master Garry Kasparov's
Chess match against a supercomputer named Deep Junior. Two things
struck me as funny. First was that the games can be watched "real
time" on the web. Second was this...

"Mr. Kasparov may be evenly matched against his silicon opponent,
but an early incident proved that even brilliant human beings can
be foiled by the simplest technology. During the opening match
last week, Deep Junior was so stumped by an off-book Kasparov
move that it spent 25 minutes mulling its next move before
appearing to black out.

Although times limits were not a concern, a minor panic gripped
the members of the programming team as they debated whether to
reboot the computer, before somebody realized that the problem
was simply that Deep Junior's screensaver had activated. They
moved the mouse, and the screen came back on."