Author: David Dahlem
Date: 07:52:40 09/19/05
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On September 19, 2005 at 10:36:32, Jonas Cohonas 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. > >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. Reminds me of Willie Nelson and his old ugly Martin guitar with a hole in the soundboard. :-) Regards Dave > >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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