Author: James Swafford
Date: 10:50:19 06/13/02
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On June 13, 2002 at 11:06:20, Robert Hyatt 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. >> >> >>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... Hmm. I always thought "CRAftY" was a play on "Cray". :) -- James
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