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Subject: Re: Your program is a ....

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 05:49:54 10/29/03

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On October 29, 2003 at 08:00:07, Joel wrote:

>Hey All,
>
>After reading all these bleak messages, I feel that maybe a happy thread needs
>to be created.
>
>I found this quite amusing:
>
>I went to www.googlism.com and typed in the name of my chess engine. It seems
>that the name "Bodo" has a lot more weird connatations than I could have thought
>possible!
>
>Can anyone else's engine top this list?
>
>- bodo is a melancholy ex
>- bodo is haunted in sleep by terrible dreams and flashbacks
>- bodo is in no mood for love
>- bodo is a stoic former military hack
>- bodo is also preoccupied with bathing

No, I can't top your list.  Here is a selection from the list I got
by entering my engine's name:

 1. gothmog is caught breaking our agreement
 2. gothmog is bleeding to death and needs to be bandaged
 3. gothmog is the leader of the balrogs
 4. gothmog is most exciting
 5. gothmog is a chaos lord
 6. gothmog is planning
 7. gothmog is in perfect shape
 8. gothmog is relatively easy
 9. gothmog is a prick to get past
10. gothmog is after me
11. gothmog is the coming for the lives of all

On this list, number 2 is a rather accurate description of the feeling I
often get when watching Gothmog get massacred by other engines, number 3
explains the origin of my engine's name (Gothmog is the Lord of the
Balrogs in the book "Silmarillion" by J.R.R. Tolkien), number 4 and 5
(but definitely not number 6!) describe the engine's style in the very
few games where it doesn't play embarassingly badly, and number 8 is
probably how most of my competitors would describe my engine.

Tord



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