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Subject: Re: Chester1 version 0.11

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 10:13:59 04/15/02

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On April 15, 2002 at 11:53:58, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On April 15, 2002 at 11:17:08, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>Hi Roy,
>>
>>you really shouldn't use the name Chester for your GUI for Chest.
>>
>>There already is a well-known private amateur chessengine with this name:
>>
>>http://www.chessclub.com/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?handle=chesterx
>>
>>Kind regards,
>>Peter
>
>
>Thanks.  It had occurred to me there might be a program called "Chester," which
>is why I used the temporary name of "Chester1".  You can see that I spent only
>about five seconds thinking of a way to modify "Chester" to lessen the
>likelihood of a conflict.
>
>I am open to ideas for a real name.  I also thought of "Chesty" but was afraid
>somebody might find it objectionable.  What do you think?
>
>Chesty?
>
>ChestCold?
>
>Chesterfield?
>
>WinChester?
>
>ChestCavity?
>
>TreasureChest?
>
>
>Others please!


The program is called Chest - you want to build a GUI for it. Is this enough to
justify a new name? It's still simply Chest, now running in your graphical user
interface. This is not to belittle your project at all - in fact I think many
people ( including me) would like to see a nice GUI for Chest very much and
support your efforts.

On the other hand it might get puzzling if you want to discuss your GUI and
people never know if the message might be about the Chest solver itself ?!

Chester1 isn't a good name IMHO as it is much too similar to the existing
Chester program. Btw there is already another engine called Chesterfield, too
:). From your above list I like Chesty most :)

hmm - OK, my suggestion: ChestBoard . Yes, I really like this one :) - also it
should be easy to get the right idea about what you are doing from the name and
it also is a very respectable name anyway ( compair: XBoard,WinBoard ->
ChestBoard )

_Everything_ only IMHO of course.

Regards,
Peter



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