Author: Steve Lopez
Date: 23:47:36 12/03/99
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On December 03, 1999 at 17:10:50, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >Fritz1 was called Knight-Stalker here in the USA - I have no idea why... Because Don Maddox thought Knightstalker was a *far* cooler name. The problem was that people in Europe thought Americans were able to buy a different chess program than what they were offered in Europe, and Americans saw the ads for Fritz and thought the Euros were getting something different. So starting with Fritz2, the name was standardized. Of course, then all the Knightstalker owners wanted to know how to get Fritz1, and on and on and on... Personally, I wish we'd stayed with Knightstalker as the name. The first time I saw an ad for it (with that cool jungle cat logo) I didn't even own a PC but the name made me want to run out and buy one just so I could try the program. -- Steve Lopez The Chess Kamikaze Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/ludekdudek/ The Chess Kamikaze Club: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/chesskamikazes
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