Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:18:04 04/21/02
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On April 20, 2002 at 20:03:14, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>On April 19, 2002 at 18:18:44, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On April 19, 2002 at 17:38:14, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>>
>>>On April 18, 2002 at 23:20:40, K. Burcham wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Mate in 11.
>>>>composed by John Kaan
>>>> [D] rn1b2rk/1pp3p1/qp1p2R1/5Q2/3RN2P/1PP5/3PbP2/4K3 w - - 0 1
>>>>very difficult for some programs.
>>>>kburcham
>>>
>>>Chest confirms this to be a mate-in-11 with a unique solution key move.
>>>(Athlon 1500+ with 128 MB hash, 3.1 hours (CM is much faster ;-))
>>>
>>>PV: Rdxd6 cxd6 Nxd6 Re8 Nxe8 Nd7 Rxg7 Qa1+ Kxe2 Qd1+ Kxd1 Ra1+ Ke2 Re1+ Kxe1 Nf6
>>>Rf7 b5 Rf8+ Ng8 Qh5#
>>
>>
>>Thanks for doing this test! (I stopped it on my 1.2 GHz system after 10
>>minutes, and now I'm glad I did because it was not close to finished.)
>>
>>Quick question: when I refer to your app, should it be in all caps ("CHEST") or
>>mixed case ("Chest")?
>
>That is a difficult question for me, since English is not my mother tongue.
>I started with all Caps CHEST, but did not like it myself: it is too much
>like shouting. Bob talks of crafty in all lowercase, but I do not like
>that best, since it is not a normal word of the language. It is a name,
>and so I decided to write it the same way I write my own name, with a
>capital first letter: Chest.
>
>Someone with a better knowledge of English may correct me, my reasoning may
>violate some established rule I don't know about.
>
>Cheers,
>Heiner
I don't think there are established rules.
I was previously referring to it as Chest then changed and began calling it
CHEST. Do the letters represent other words (e.g., DOS is capitalized because
it means "Disk Operating System" but "Mac" is not capitalized as it is just a
short version of "Macintosh")?
Even if the letters do not represent other words, one possible benefit of using
all capital letters ("CHEST") is that people are more likely to quickly realize
you are referring to a piece of software rather than a body part. ;-)
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