Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:56:04 04/15/02
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On April 15, 2002 at 13:13:59, Peter Berger wrote: >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 I was not trying to claim that my little tiny utility deserves to be considered a significant program! I just need to call it SOMETHING.exe. Hey, how about that name?
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