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Hi Andrew ! Lot of fun

Let's try to classify a few more :

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AKIBA -> probably named after Akiba Rubinstein ?
BRAMA -> mythics ? But Pallav won't agree
KONIG SCHWARZ -> chess pieces (black king)
LAMOSCA -> insects
TRYNYTY -> mythics ? lol
YAWCE -> acronyms
ARION -> mythics
ATLAS -> mythics
DIABLO -> mythics again...
TOGA II 0.93 -> acronyms
ZEPHYR 0.61 -> mythics
ALFIL 411.1 -> chess pieces
MUSTANG 2.67 -> mammals
RANITA 2.4 -> little frog :)
ARMAGEDDON 2.289 -> mythics
GENESIS 2.01B -> mythics
GERBIL R0.2 -> mammals ?
RYBKA 1.6.1 -> small fish
DJINN 0.870 -> mythics
KAISSA 1.8A -> mythics
MUSE 0.899B -> mythics
TRACE 1.33B -> acronyms
TYTAN 4.98 -> mythics
IKARUS V0.18 -> mythics
LAMBCHOP 10.99 -> mammals :)


Olivier

Hi Andrew! Interesting list. Some more:

NANOSZACHY -> Chess (szachy means chess in polish)
PIKOSZACHY -> Chess
GOSU -> is not an acronim, it means expert in korean

Great list, Andrew!

Some additions:

Mythical: Belzebub, Dragon, Fimbulwinter, Genesis, Little Goliath, Thor's Hammer.
Mammals: Chess Tiger
Chess: Ajedrez Tactico, Xadreco.
Names: Amundsen, Dimitri, Greko, Francesca, Hermann, Homer, Madeleine, Matheus, Ozwald, Raffaela.

New categories:

Professions: Butcher, Doctor, Monarch, Pirat, Soldat.
Weather: Storm, The Lightning, Tornado.
Astronomy & Physics: Celes, Comet, Terra, Deuterium, Pulsar, Quark.

Tord

Hello,

DanaSah : Chess

Dana --> Daniela
Sah --> Chess in romanien

Hi Andrew, really interesting and fun list!

FAUCE is an acronym --> Farina Andrea Ubaldo's Chess Engine

Hello Andrew

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Mythical
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DELFI
PHARAON


Names
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LEILA
MONIK


Acronyms
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HIARCS


Weather
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URAGANO


Astro-physics
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ALDEBARAN

Ciro

More and more fun

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ABROK 5.0 is from the name of the author (Korba)
ALDEBARAN -> Astronomy
ANMON 5.51 -> ANge + deMON (Angel & Devil)
AVERNO 0.70 -> Biblical (hell)
BRUJA 1.9B -> Profession (witch!)
CANALLA -> Profession (thief, gangster)
CHISPA 4.0.2 -> means spark
GAVIOTA 0.33 -> bird (seagull)
KTULU 6.1BETA -> Another spelling for Cthulhu, from the Lovecraft books
NEJMET 3.07 -> means star in Arebic
RUFFIAN 2.1.0 -> profession, of course !
SACHY -> "chess" in Czech
SIERZANT -> poofession (sergeant)
SKAKI 1.20 -> "chess" in Greek


Olivier

Olivier Deville wrote:More and more fun
KTULU 6.1BETA -> Another spelling for Cthulhu, from the Lovecraft books
Olivier

Hello Olivier!
Ktulu is from Metallica's song: "The call of Ktulu"
greetings, Ciro

Ciro Vignotto wrote:

Olivier Deville wrote:More and more fun
KTULU 6.1BETA -> Another spelling for Cthulhu, from the Lovecraft books
Olivier

Hello Olivier!
Ktulu is from Metallica's song: "The call of Ktulu"
greetings, Ciro

Hi Ciro

You are right. The Metallica song is named after a book of Howard P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu.

http://www.callofcthulhu.com/mythos/coc_lovecraft.html

Olivier

Andrew Fan wrote:Hm, just remembered that "Kanguruh" is not a mammal, will reclassify it later.

Andrew.

Well, they have got strange animals in Australia... But still I guess that marsupials and monotremes are mammals.

Olivier

Olivier Deville wrote:... But still I guess that marsupials and monotremes are mammals.

Olivier

I wasn't sure but Wikipedia agrees with you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupial.

Volker

so
Betsy is a name,
Naum - is acronim (shortly Naumov ),
Aristarh - great philosopher, name,
Asterisk - with his friend Obelisk ,
Bestia - mammal,
Pharaon - is a great and very difficult proffesions,
Protej - greek tytan, mithology

GreKo =
1. Abbrev. for GREat KOmbinator
2. Named after Joacino Greco, Italian chessmaster of 16th century.

[quote="Andrew Fan"]Just a bit of late night fun. Engine names from Olivier's Chess War web pages.

Classified with my limited knowledge so it will contain errors. Some engine has no version because I'm too lazy to type them in.

Well, name "Homer" is used because i'm fan of the FreeTV serie "Simpsons". Need a new group "comic/TV" ?

Great list
daniel

Well, name "Homer" is used because i'm fan of the FreeTV serie "Simpsons". Need a new group "comic/TV" ?

Yes, a group for comic/tv would be great, Spike would also belong to this then. With Gromit there would be at least 3 engines in it.

Most people think that Spike is the dog from "Tom and Jerry", but our (and especially our wifes) intention was the vampire from the tv-series "Buffy the vampire slayer"

Btw, another cool group would be "Tolkien's world", with actually at least 3 engines: Gothmog, Glaurung and Gandalf. And I still hope that some new engines will belong to this group in the future.

best
Ralf

Hi,

this is REALLY fun...

some notes:

ABROK 5.0 --> ABROK is Korba -> the authors name
ALDEBARAN --> That's a star or a star-system as far as I know
AMYAN 1.595 --> If I remember correctly, the author told me once, that this is a woman in a japanese anime
ARISTARCH 4.50 --> afaik a scientist, he was the first one who thought that the earth moves around the sun... more then thousend years before Kopernikus
ASTERISK 0.4B --> comic... remember Obelix ?!
AYITO 0.2.54 --> Isn't that also the name of this strange sony robot-dog ? At least I believe it is a name...
BETSY 6.51 --> of course a name
BLIKSKOTTEL --> afaik an animal...
BODO 0.2B --> a name
BRAMA --> name or religious ?!
CAPTURE R01 --> chess ? or a move
FAILE 1.4 --> You might call this "bad player -> from to fail... somehow you could also order Patzer and Quark in that. But with Quark I am also fine with it's current categorie, in fact I had both in mind when creating the name"
GARGAMELLA --> remember Gargamel from the smirfs ? So TV/Comic
GHOST 0.14 --> well, a ghost... where to order it ?
HERMANN 1.2 --> a name
ICESPELL 0.022 --> mystics ?
JUNIOR 9 --> maybe also something for a bad player ?
LEILA 0.53H --> name
MONIK 2.1.1 --> name
PATZER 3.61 --> look at fail... a "Patzer" is a bad move or someone who often makes single bad moves
PENTAGON --> mathematical or mystical ?
PEPITO 1.59 --> same as junior...
PETIR 2.3A --> name ?
RUFFIAN 2.1.0 --> name of a horse -> so name categorie might be fine
SKAKI 1.20 --> afaik this means simply chess in greek
WITZ --> joke ? Maybe also "bad player" categorie ?

Greets, Thomas