Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 16:29:45 10/20/99
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On October 20, 1999 at 13:04:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: >How does any of that matter? If you look at when Junior hit the market, I >believe it was _after_ DB junior played and 'existed'. CB Junior existed and >had a real game history, as it played in real USCF events. And CB "junior" was >used many more times. I was often asked to do demos at chess events, and I >would generally do so when possible, but almost always on a much slower machine >than the fastest actually available at that time (IE if we entered the ACM event >on a C90, then that was "cray blitz". If we did a demo on an old 4 cpu XMP, >we would make up a sign "cray blitz junior"). I know that Junior existed and was called Junior in late 1994 or early 1995 at the latest. I asked why it ran on the "ban" account and I told it was because "junior" had already been taken (by GM Gurevich). For what it is worth, I think this whole thing is wrong. "Junior" is a pretty generic qualifier. It is used to denote a reduced capability instance of something more substantial, or in some cases a version meant for kids. I don't think anyone has any right to this suffix, but I would think that Amir has claim to the word by itself as denotes a chess program or something similar. I wouldn't feel any need to get permission from Amir to make a "Ferret Jr.", same as I would feel no need to get permission from Dave Slate, author of "Chess 4.9", etc. in order to call my thing "Chess Ferret". I think that it is silly that this has gone on so long, and that anyone feels the need to fight over it. It seems obvious that they should be able to use the word. I am not a lawyer, nor apparently is anyone else here, but I think that any lawyer would be able to resolve this in a few minutes, and I would be profoundly surprised if they were to suggest that Amir has permanently claim on the letters "Jr" as related to any chess product. Anyway, that's what I think, and I'd think it regardless of which of you guys was trying to lay claim to the word. I just wish that the weird bad blood between you guys would dissipate so that you all could make the same claim. bruce
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