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A topic that has always interested me.....naming of chess engines as I must admit to sometimes using chess engines in tournaments and match play that have "cool sounding names"....sometimes I wonder how some of the authors come up with these names...it surely must take a bit of time and requires a good imagination! Now some of my favorite names for chess engines: Crafty....Gandalf....Merlin.....Kings Out....Houdini (magic)
....Fritz (why I do not know)....Komodo... (I like dragons)
...AtlanChess...BlackMamba....TheKing...Hydra.....MangoPaola.....
MishasMauler....RybkaKiller......MrChess....OctoChess(Cool)...ProDeo(don't know exactly what it means but it sounds good)..Nagaskaki... Purplehaze....Jukebox Develop..RobboExplorer....Rocket...Shredder...Deep Blue....Silke Chess....Sinapse....Sting SF.....ANT...Thinker...Chess Genius....Twisted Logic....to name a few.....what are your favorite engine names? Let us know! Thx AR

King Slayer

Binary Wisdom

- Deep Thought
- Alan Turing
- Houdini
- Colossus
- Gandalf
- Giraffe
- Komodo
- Hiarcs
- Rebel
- MChessPro
- TheKing
- Fruit
- Zappa
- Zarkov

As I see, I like : human incarnation, animals, "Z" letter, oldies, ...

Rotor

Rodent

Annihilation

Frenetic Calculator
Allan

Chess machine. Nothing unclear about it.

AN(ANgel)MON(deMON).
Half angel half demon ...

That is the best idea from all I know, and I know a lot.
Christian BARRETEAU must be itself a wizard and a very very friendly programmer with so many nice ideas.

Cool is Patzer (blunder I think in English) or DisasterArea ... nice for chess engines. OK, a lot of nice names, but AnMon is fantastic in my opinion!

Best
Frank