Author: James Long
Date: 18:45:00 09/15/98
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On September 13, 1998 at 11:34:17, Ed Panek wrote: > I was wondering, for fun, if everyone who has written a program for chess can >relate to us why and how they came up with tha names they did. Did you know >right away or didi you have other names as ideas also? > > >Thanks Ed Mine is named Tristram, after a knight of King Arthur's round table. Since knights are fighters, I thought it appropriate to name the program after a knight. I considered Launcelot, but he betrayed his King by sleeping with the queen Guenevere. If I can get my hands on a second machine, I'm gonna start an experiment with Genetic Algorithms. I considered renaming the resulting program GAlahad, after the most noble and pure knight, but I hate to abandon the name "Tristram." -- James
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