I would like to know what's the story behind the name of your chess engines.
Thanks

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Especially Dorky and Snail Chess.georgerifkin wrote:Inspired by this thread: http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39381
I would like to know what's the story behind the name of your chess engines.
Thanks
I think 'Rookie' is kind of obvious. It was a logical name when I picked it around 1993. It was a nameless program in the years before when I used nothing more than a sequence number that I incremented every time I made a modification. 1.s, 2.s, 3.s, etc... When I got close to 80.s I decided on the name and eventually Rookie 0.82 debuted in the DOCCC'93 (and got slaughtered). The King won that tournament, therefore I'm extremely pleased with last week's draw in the ICT11 and Johan getting curious about Rookie's king safety evaluation :-)georgerifkin wrote:Inspired by this thread: http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39381
I would like to know what's the story behind the name of your chess engines.
Thanks :)
I was a very poor student at the time, I had spent all my savings on a second-hand Amiga 2000 that I used for development. It was practically falling apart by the time I entered it for the tournament. On the first round the machine wouldn't boot. It turned out that the power supply had broken. I forfeited that round for that reason against Schach.tmokonen wrote:Well, isn't that a neat slice of computer chess history?
What happened here?
http://marcelk.net/rookie/nostalgia/v0/ ... mes/schach