Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:06:20 06/13/02
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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. > > >Where'd they all come from? "Cray Blitz" partially came from students. In the very early 1970's, I put my chess program on the CIS departmental computer and let students play it. It was pretty obvious that it played fast chess far better than slow chess way back then, because of the very slow hardware. Students suggested calling it "blitz" because of this. When Cray started to formally sponsor the program by providing machine time, I added the "cray" to "cray blitz" to make it "different" from the old "blitz" program which had its own USCF rating on much slower hardware. "crafty" came about when I searched for a name (handle) to use when I first started playing the program on ICC. It seemed to make some "crafty" moves and I chose to use that for the name...
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