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
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