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Subject: Re: Dutch-ch 2000, results from round 6 !

Author: Dennis Breuker

Date: 01:29:49 10/17/00

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On October 15, 2000 at 20:25:36, Mike S. wrote:

>On October 15, 2000 at 19:48:12, Howard Exner wrote:
>
>>Where did the tradition of calling the newest fritz version ,Quest, originate?
>
>IIRC, "Quest" was the earliest name of the Morsch software, and later on "Fritz"
>was chosen to be identified as a german product (of ChessBase). I'm not 100%
>sure about that.

Actually, in the early days of the Dutch Computer Chess Championship
Frans Morsch competed with "Nona". Later he changed this to Quest.
But maybe Nona was before Fritz1?

>
>Btw. I would have kept Quest, I think it's also better for international usage.
>
>If you are really interested, I'm sure Frederic Friedel could tell you the exact
>story, but I think he's travelling at present.
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl

Dennis



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