A New Name for Doch....

[Don]

Borg...From Star Trek series, Resistance is futile!

You cant name it after some famous person like Tesla

I like Isaac after Sir Isaac Newton. Or even Newton. Or "Sin" for Sir Isaac Newton!

Someone else I would like to have though is a name that is easy to google.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

How about Sylar,the vicious killer from the Heroes series
It's a damn good name for a chess engine
Dr.D

[Gerd Isenberg]

Borg...From Star Trek series, Resistance is futile!

You cant name it after some famous person like Tesla

I like Isaac after Sir Isaac Newton. Or even Newton. Or "Sin" for Sir Isaac Newton!

Someone else I would like to have though is a name that is easy to google.

Sounds great!

Don Dailey, The MAD Adventures of Captain Sin

Don Martin, The Mad Adventures of Captain Klutz

[Graham Banks]

Sintillate (as per scintillating).

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi,

the topic is the personality file in Doch and we make the name of the engine to the main topic

The programmer will kill us.

Thats computer chess fora live

Frank

[Dann Corbit]

Reasons for Capablanca ...

Capablanca won 1909 a match vs. the best American player Frank Marshall with 8:1 ... 14 x Remis

Have a look in the SWCR database:
ELO-Rating list ...

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01. Rybka 3             2.861 games 680, remis 28%
02. Shredder 12	      2.800 games 680, remis 36%
03. Stockfish 1.6       2.789 games 680, remis 41%
04. Naum 4              2.779 games 680, remis 39%

32 Bit, 1 Core, ponder = on, 40 moves in 10 minutes, TOP 4

Now, the highest remis quote and Stockfish have the same playing style as Capablanca

Best
Frank

There is literally nothing worse than giving a computer chess program the name of a famous chess player.

Computer programs that are used to spellcheck player names are only too glad to rename [White "Morphy"] program games as [White "Morphy, Paul"] bringing him back from the dead in 2007. The same for the many other programs and machines given human names. All I can say to giving human names to chess engines is:
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER do that.

IMO-YMMV.

P.S.
He could call it 'vegetable' as a foil for 'fruit'
Or how about 'doch' for 'Do' in Don and 'Ch' in Chess?
Or even 'a boy named Sue' -- anything but Capablanca.

[Eastendboy]

If you come up with a good name I might indeed be tempted. I never intended to stick with the name "Doch" anyway.

Here are a few different names for consideration:

Alchemy

Hiro

Paean

Praxis

Protagonist

Xabbu

I could do this all day.

[mjlef]

How about either "Alan" or Turing". SOrt of the father of modern computers, and sounds friendly.

[mjlef]

How about getting some corporate sponsors and call it the "McDonalds, Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Google Chess Program!"

[Thomas Mayer]

How about either "Alan" or Turing". SOrt of the father of modern computers, and sounds friendly.

^

Turing exists, as far as I know Matthias Feist & Ken Thompson wrote together a chessbase engine with the famous papermachine inside. But I do not remember an engine called Alan so far. We have an Adam and an Alex but no Alan so far...

Greets, Thomas