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Subject: Re: Commercial Fruit

Author: Alex Shalamanov

Date: 04:53:10 09/19/05

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On September 18, 2005 at 22:27:44, ludicrous wrote:

>Congratulations to Fruit's Author and Fruit's amazing accomplishments.  Just my
>opinion; for me the name 'fruit' seems very timid for one of the strongest chess
>playing softwares in world, if not the best.  What's in a name?  Be that as it
>may, what concerns me more is the playing strength of Fruit.  However, Fruit may
>appeal more to the computer chess crowd and not the average person, partly maybe
>because of the name.  Some non-computer chess people I talked said they would
>purchase Chess Genius for palm, rather than palm HIARCS or Palm Tiger.  Why?
>Because of the impression of the name "Genius" had on them.

Apart from some other meanings, a French word "un fruit" stands for "a child".
Thus, one can derive that it's Fabien's much-cared child. ;)
Alex



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