Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:38:15 06/13/02
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On June 13, 2002 at 13:50:19, James Swafford wrote: >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 Never was. Stuart Cracraft got me interested in ICC (ICS back then) and he thought it was a play on his name too. :)
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