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Subject: Re: lets rename fruit to something better

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:51:48 11/09/05

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On November 09, 2005 at 18:49:51, Andre Lopez wrote:

>I was thinking the same thing about Kasparov... His name doesn't mean anything
>to me... However now everybody knows him as the best chess player ever... So I'm
>expecting the same thing for Fruit...
>I guess we can call it Korchpov or Patate it still will be remembered.

When you name a chess program the name of a player, cleanup routines (like that
in SCID) will change it from:

Kasparovx

To:

Kasparov, Garry

And things of that nature.

Naming chess engines after chess players is really harmful inside your chess
database.



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