Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
Date: 01:48:30 11/07/00
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On November 06, 2000 at 13:26:24, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On November 06, 2000 at 13:09:48, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>Why do so many programs have an "x" at the end of their names? What is it >>supposed to mean? Is it eXperimental or ??? > >In the beginning, there was "WCHESS". This guy was a butthead kid who bought >Kittinger's program and used it to get one everyone's nerves. > >Sometime later, Kittinger showed up, and he couldn't call his thing WChess. So >he called it WChessX. > >And that was the first "X" program I saw. My guess is that there are a few more >like this, where the programmer didn't figure out about ICC until the name of >his program had been taken, by a kid or by a manual operator who might not even >be using that program. > >For example, "rebel" is a human rated 1825, "tiger" is a human rated 1024, >"genius" used to be an annoying computer account but is now a human rated 1672, >and so on. > >I think someone grabbed "Shredder" before Stefan could, but it was someone >running Shredder, and he eventually got control of the account. > >bruce The X thing was there long before the Wchess incident. Take a look at the results of some old computer tournaments, half of the programs have this added X. It is a convenient thing, it guess it should mean eXperimental, so if you are a having a bad tournament, it was just the experimental version, but if you win it is the experimental version very close to the final product. That was also one reason to name our first program XXXX, just to be sure... Stefan
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