Author: Rémi Coulom
Date: 05:30:37 10/04/00
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On October 03, 2000 at 09:36:37, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:
>Is there any other origin of computer chess anmes which is historically
>particularly interesting/tricky?
>
People reading this forum might already have heard about Ananse who participated
in many ICCA World Championships. According to his author, Walter Bannerman,
Ananse is a word in an African language that means spider. He named is program
Ananse because this animal is crafty in african legends from his country.
The Crazy Bishop is a pun in French. Explaining puns is not fun at all, but for
the information of non-French-speaking persons, "crazy" and "bishop" translate
into the same word in French ("fou"). So The Crazy Bishop is "le fou fou" in
French, which sounds funny. A language that uses the same word for "crazy" and
"bishop" might look weird, but that is the way it is. The reason is that in fact
what english people call a bishop on a chessboard is a joker in French. We have
another word for bishops in churchs ("eveque").
Remi
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