Author: Slater Wold
Date: 12:42:43 06/12/02
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On June 12, 2002 at 15:18:25, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 Sjeng was *actually* the program that got me curious about this! Pretty interesting. :)
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