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Sylwy
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by Sylwy » Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:24 pm
SzG wrote:Graham Banks wrote:Uralochka.
I can't see the woman behind that name. As far as I know it's the nickname of a mountain.
Hi Gabor !
In the STASI archive Uralochka means an Ekaterinburg female volleyball team !
So ,
a lot of women !
Take a look here:
SilvianR
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Dr.Wael Deeb
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by Dr.Wael Deeb » Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:50 pm
Sylwy wrote:SzG wrote:Graham Banks wrote:Uralochka.
I can't see the woman behind that name. As far as I know it's the nickname of a mountain.
Hi Gabor !
In the STASI archive Uralochka means an Ekaterinburg female volleyball team !
So ,
a lot of women !
Take a look here:
SilvianR
Can I join the team please
_No one can hit as hard as life.But it ain’t about how hard you can hit.It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.How much you can take and keep moving forward….
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Sylwy
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by Sylwy » Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:19 pm
Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:
Can I join the team please
OK Doc !
Just for you here's some datas from my STASI archive:
-the official site:
http://www.uralochka-vc.ru/
-postal address:
Azina Str., 23 RUS - 620027 EKATERINBURG
-phone:
[7] 343-359 37 80
-fax:
[7] 343-359 37 81
-email:
uralochkae@mail.ru
-most of the players are unmarried !!!!!!!!
Doc , be attentive please! Ekaterinburg is the ex-Sverdlovsk. Is full of FSB ( ФСБ ) agents here ! Most of Russian army industry here is (Kalasnikov & so on.....) !
The girls and the city are beautiful ! Just a sample:
Regards,
SilvianR
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SzG
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by SzG » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:04 pm
Sylwy wrote:
Hi Gabor !
In the STASI archive Uralochka means an Ekaterinburg female volleyball team !
So ,
a lot of women !
Ah, so Graham knew better!!
Gabor Szots
CCRL testing group
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georgerifkin
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by georgerifkin » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:24 pm
Thank you guys for all the replies. I hope even more programmers will answer.
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abik
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by abik » Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:12 pm
georgerifkin wrote:I would like to know what's the story behind the name of your chess engines.
BikJump is an obvious combination of my last name and the move of a knight (hence the jumping horse as my logo). It also sounds a bit like big jump, although most readers here would argue it has not been a major leap forward for computer chess.
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michiguel
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by michiguel » Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:32 pm
georgerifkin wrote:Thank you guys for all the replies. I hope even more programmers will answer.
Gaviota means "seagull", from the story of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The spirit of the engine reflects the free spirit of the fictional bird, of flying for fun and excitement, not for food. In Spanish, the book was translated to "Juan Salvador Gaviota". In addition, by wife's nickname is Gaby, so it has double meaning.
Miguel
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Gerd Isenberg
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by Gerd Isenberg » Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:20 pm
Ok, since I will incorporate this stuff in cpw anyway, here is my contribution. My DOS-program had an
Intelligent GUI and was able to play up to ten games
simultaneously - in short IsiChess
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JVMerlino
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by JVMerlino » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:54 am
Mine's pretty obvious as well. "Myrddin" is the Welsh spelling of "Merlin", and my last name (Merlino) is the Italian equivalent of Merlin (although it has other meanings as well).
The only interesting part is that my wife didn't like the name, and so I promised her that, once my engine "got strong enough", I would change the name to Gleep, after the green dragon in the "Myth" series by Robert Aspirin. Sadly, we never really agreed what "strong enough" was, and so Myrddin remains. I think my 0x88 engine will always be called Myrddin, and when I either rewrite it or convert it to bitboards, I will change the name to Gleep.
jm
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Roger Brown
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by Roger Brown » Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:28 am
JVMerlino wrote:
Mine's pretty obvious as well. "Myrddin" is the Welsh spelling of "Merlin", and my last name (Merlino) is the Italian equivalent of Merlin (although it has other meanings as well).
The only interesting part is that my wife didn't like the name, and so I promised her that, once my engine "got strong enough", I would change the name to Gleep, after the green dragon in the "Myth" series by Robert Aspirin. Sadly, we never really agreed what "strong enough" was, and so Myrddin remains. I think my 0x88 engine will always be called Myrddin, and when I either rewrite it or convert it to bitboards, I will change the name to Gleep.
jm
Hello John Merlino,
Did you read that series of stories by Asprin? I thought that they were more enjoyable that the Thieves' World stories and I enjoyed those quite a bit.
It was a wild romp - I laughed and laughed at the demon Ahz and....well, enough off-topic ruminations.
Later.
