Author: Lin Harper
Date: 19:12:42 12/03/99
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On December 03, 1999 at 21:23:05, Pete Galati wrote: >On December 03, 1999 at 21:14:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On December 03, 1999 at 17:10:50, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >> >>>I supect it is a popular German name chosen by Fritz's creater, Franz Morsch? >> Would you have preferred he called it 'Duntz'? :) >>First of al it's >> Frans Morsch >>and not Franz >> >>Secondly: Frans is dutch and not german. >> >>Third: i can't imagine chessbase letting their engine maker invent a >>name instead of their big PR department. > >Chessbase probably tried to compile Franz's engine and had something messed up >and thought it was on the fritz & the name just stuck. > >Pete > >> >>>Fritz1 was called Knight-Stalker here in the USA - I have no idea why... >>> >>>Larry T >>> >>>On December 03, 1999 at 12:50:37, Charles Unruh wrote: >>> >>>>Why is Fritz, called Fritz? What's the idea behind that name, or is it named >>>>after someone?
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