Author: Tom Likens
Date: 12:33:50 11/09/05
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On November 09, 2005 at 13:54:26, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Hey Dann, At one time (I think after a long day of debugging the eval) I seriously contemplated renaming Djinn to "Brownian Motion". I still may before it's all over! ;-) regards, --tom
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