Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 07:36:32 09/19/05
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>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. One of my friends used to attend a lot of open jams (blues, jazz, rock anything) back when you could get hired as a studio musician or better, if you outplayed the other guys. He owned the ugliest guitar ever made in a bright salmon pink color and a weird shape, people would laugh their backends off when they saw him in the backroom with that guitar and never think twice that he would be a threat, however as it is, he is an amazing musician and when he started playing, the contrast between his apperance and his actual playing was emphasized and people would stop laughing and he usually would end up getting the gig. Fruit might have the same effect (though i don't think this is intended) "hey look at that Fruity engine, ain't that cute... hey look now i am checkmate..." I actually like the name Fruit and think he should keep it. The only thing i don't like about Hydra for example is that lame 8 headed (or however many it is) dragon reference, that is just so dorky to me, imagine in the future is an 8 headed dragon got it's ass kicked by a piece of Fruit... Jonas Jonas
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