Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:54:26 11/09/05
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On November 09, 2005 at 13:16:30, ERIQ wrote: >does anyone else find it strange that such a powerful program could be named >fruit?! This I think is to passive of a name maybe better something stronger >more robust. But I cann't think of anything at moment so lets do it together >shall we. I think that Fruit is the best name of any chess engine, and I really mean that. The worst names of all are those after a great chess player. 'Morphy' and 'Kasparov' derivitives I find truly annoying (they really WREAK HAVOC in chess databases too). If anyone names a chess engine Capablanca, I do hereby promise to boycott the engine forever, no matter how excellent it is. OK, I might look at the source if it is open source, but I won't use it even in games unless I rename it. Only slightly better are "demolishon" names like Shredder or Armageddon (though certainly, Shredder has earned it). My favorite chess engine names are names that make you go ?What? or self-effacing names. For example: 31337 Asterisk BabyChess SmallPotato and that ilk. Besides Fruit, my other favorite name is "Bean Counter" -- an unreleased engine written by a whinging twit that I know personally.
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