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Subject: Re: A question for everyone who has written a chess program........

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 12:18:25 06/12/02

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On June 12, 2002 at 14:31:57, Slater Wold wrote:

>Where'd you come up with the name?
>
>Crafty, Fritz, Junior, Rebel, Chess Tiger, Movei, Ferret, Monsoon, etc., etc.

My program originally only played crazyhouse and bughouse chess.
The strongest player at that time was Andre Nillson, playing
under the handle 'Gnejs'. I reversed it to 'Sjeng'.

I like the sound of it, so I kept it.

Also, there's a Dutch tennis player who is actually named like
that.

Good thing I didn't start with normal chess. Vorapsak and Kinmark
don't sound like names that will ever be popular.

--
GCP



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