‘Pool’ Feed for Rice Student, Computer Chess Game

Media Advisory

CONTACT: Lisa Nutting
PHONE: (713) 831-4796

`POOL’ FEED FOR RICE STUDENT, COMPUTER CHESS GAME

Television coverage of the chess game between Rice
junior Nathan Doughty and “DB Junior,” a smaller version of Deep Blue, the IBM
chess machine, will be available today by “pool” feed from a conference room in
the Anne and Charles Duncan Hall on the Rice campus. The university will provide
a mult-box for camera crews to receive the direct audio/visual feed from the
game site.

Organizers of the chess game want as little disruption as possible during the
contest to allow both Doughty and “DB Junior” to concentrate on their
strategies. Camera crews, reporters and still photographers will be allowed into
the match site before and after the game.

The mult-box will be located at the control booth located on the northeast
corner of the hall on the ground floor. News Office staff will direct television
crews to the booth.

The chess game is part of Rice’s Computer and Information Technology
Institute’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The program begins at 4 p.m. The chess
match is scheduled to start at 5 p.m.

Questions concerning coverage of this event should be directed to either Lisa
Nutting at (713) 831-4796 or Philip Montgomery at (713) 831-4792.

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