Author: Dagh Nielsen
Date: 12:49:32 11/09/05
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As the engine + name gets established in the chessworld, the name fruit will probably take on a meaning of its own so that we associate it to "strong chess engine" instead of "apple". Just think about when people say stuff like "fruit is really a schredder killer" etc., then suddenly fruit will no longer have a passive association in our minds. Likewise, if there were no fritz engine, and somebody said they made an engine called fritz, I would think it sounded like a middle aged archtypical German man, but now fritz has practically become synonymous with "the toughest engine we all have running on our comps", and the formally correct word "chess engine" is usually just replaced by "fritz" when a chessauthor wants to make some point about the use of chessengines. In light of this, fruit is an excellent name because it is short, distinct, smooth (unlike Toga or Gandalf), and easy to remember. Only drawback is that it starts with "fr" and is exactly 5 letters long, like fritz. Note, even if one cannot completely disregard subconscious associations or subconscious activation of feelings (like fruit --> "umm" or "ecology maniac favorite"), there is definately some "feel good" nature in the name, and once that gets paradoxically coupled with its "it's a killer" nature, many people will probably enjoy some satisfactory excitement, just like we get excited when the paradoxical point of a joke is revealed. It would be the same excitement as one could get from first choosing "Ghandi" as nick on a chess server, and then beat the crap out of opponents. Regards, Dagh Nielsen 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.
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