Deep Thought (chess computer) Kasparov in 1989 as well as in a correspondence match with Michael Valvo. It was named after Deep Thought, a fictional computer in Douglas Adams' series, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The naming of chess computers has continued in this vein with Deep Blue, Deep Fritz, Deep Junior, etc. Deep Thought won the North American Computer Chess Championship in 1988 and the World Computer Chess Championship in the year 1989, and its rating, according to the USCF was 2551. In 1994, Deep Thought 2 won the North American Computer Chess Championship for the fifth time, with its rating estimated
Music for Reliquary House / In 1980 I Was a Blue Square Point Never side "Music for Reliquary House", a composition and set of remixes of audio Lopatin produced for Nate Boyce's audiovisual project "Reliquary House". The primary sounds of the composition are bits of computer-produced human speech reconstructed into new sounds. The second half, "In 1980 I Was A Blue Square" by Rene Hell, is a suite of minimalist contemporary classical music that also includes electronic sounds. For both Daniel Lopatin and Jeff Witscher, Music For Reliquary House and In 1980 I Was A Blue Square are shifts from their early synthesizer-heavy recordings to electroacoustic music. "Pitchfork" journalist Nick Neyland called