Deep Blue (chess computer) the development team. The project was started as ChipTest at Carnegie Mellon University by Feng-hsiung Hsu, followed by its successor, Deep Thought. After their graduation from Carnegie Mellon, Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, and Murray Campbell from the Deep Thought team were hired by IBM Research to continue their quest to build a chess machine that could defeat the world champion. Hsu and Campbell joined IBM in autumn 1989, with Anantharaman following later. Anantharaman subsequently left IBM for Wall Street and Arthur Joseph Hoane joined the team to perform programming tasks. Jerry Brody, a long-time employee of IBM Research, was recruited for
Blue Force being sentenced to 15 years in prison. "Computer Gaming World"s Charles Ardai in 1993 stated that "Blue Force" "is simply not as strong as Walls' previous games". He criticized the game world ("prop-up facades"), "abysmal" dialogues, "appalling spelling errors and factual inconsistencies", and slow speed. Ardai concluded that "Walls and Tsunami both have better work in them ... they have nowhere to go but up". In 1996, "Computer Gaming World" declared "Blue Force" the 37th-worst computer game ever released. Blue Force Blue Force is a computer game for MS-DOS released in 1993 by former Police Quest designer Jim Walls. The