Better program name than pychess about pychess

Original comment 1. posted by lobais 2006-09-14

Haha, you are right. Pychess somehow suchs :D
Perhaps I should try to gather a lot of names like that, and make a poll on the
pychess homehape?
Any more ideas?

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Original comment 2. posted by lobais 2006-09-14

Scaccarium is the Lating word for chess/chessboard. I don't think it's taken either.

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Original comment 3. posted by lobais 2006-09-14

One solution could also be gnome-chess...

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Original comment 4. posted by lobais 2006-09-14

Or Bellum, latin for war.

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Original comment 5. posted by wouterstomp 2006-09-16

Gnome chess is already taken. Bellum sounds good!

Original comment 6. posted by lobais 2006-09-16

Yeah, Scaccarium might also be a little to long.
Only thing is, if Bellum sonds to much like Belly or something?..

Also:
Preda: plunder, booty, spoils of war, loot, gain, prey.
Impeto: to attack, head for.
Oppugno: to fight against, attack, assault, assail
Lesio/laesio: rhetorical attack; wounding.
Grassor: go about, go ahead, proceed, attack.

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Original comment 7. posted by lobais 2006-10-28

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Original comment 8. posted by david.leuschner 2006-11-01

Well, I like the name PyChess - I wouldn't have looked at it if I hadn't seen that it
is written in my favorite programming language. As the term "pychess" would not be
used for anything else information about pychess (especially the website) is very
easy to find. Fianchetto, by the way, is taken:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fianchetto.
Just stick to pychess - it's more important to have a unique name that allows people
to find the project than to have some fancy cool name but nobody knows what the
project is about. PyChess is unique and just by seeing the name I know what it's
about: python and chess.

Original comment 9. posted by lobais 2006-11-05

Hm, the only pychess domain name that is taken, is pychess.org, which is taken by
Pennsylvania Youth chess

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Original comment 10. posted by berado88 2006-12-21

I agree with David.

Original comment 11. posted by lobais 2007-01-02

Some Zulu words:

Chess: Ishesi
King: Inkosi
Fighting like millions (praise names for the Zulu king): ISigidi
To think: Cabanga
War: Impi
A fight: Ukulwa
Soldier: Ibutho; Ijoni; Isosha
Intelligence: Ingqondo
Village: Umuzi
Wonder: Zibuza

Ander another latin one:

To wonder at exceedingly: Emiror

Original comment 12. posted by robert.ancell 2007-01-04

PyChess has already been used in a Python chess library
(http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/PyChess/1.0.2a) and in another chess program
(http://py.vaults.ca/parnassus/apyllo.py/77689886.955584127). I think the latter is dead.

Original comment 13. posted by wouterstomp 2007-01-06

Cabanga sounds good!

Original comment 14. posted by lobais 2007-01-07

Cabanga also gives very few hits on google (32,300; cabanga chess gives 178), and
cabanga.org is free.

Only problem might be as david states "than to have some fancy cool name but nobody
knows what the project is about". Will cabanga be too alien and reject people just
looking for a program with chess or board in it?..

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Original comment 15. posted by lobais 2007-05-10

I think celobox on the mailinglist is nice. We use the Chronological list of FIDE
masters: Lucena, Ruylopez, Grecco, Philidor, Stauton, Anderssen, Morphy, Steinitz,
Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Reti, Bogoljubov, Breyer, Botvnnik, Smyslov, Thal,
Petrossian, Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Annand, Kramnnik.
Then 0.7/0.8 will be named: "PyChess Philidor" I think it looks quite good in
graphics like the attached.
I also think the font signals the right things. What do you think?

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Original comment 16. posted by lobais 2007-05-10

Ops, perhaps I should upload all the teeths :)

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Original comment 17. posted by gbtami 2007-06-22

I think the listed masters are not all "good enough" (Reti, Bogoljubov, Breyer).
I think we better to use only real word champions name's (except some unofficial
champions from early ages of course). So i changed this list a bit on wiki.
The graphics is fantastic!

Original comment 18. posted by priestoftime 2007-12-26

I think that pychess is a great name. It makes sense.

Original comment 19. posted by gbtami 2007-12-26

I quite agree. PyChess is a good name, and using champions names's for releases shows
the project's progress.

Original comment 20. posted by lobais 2007-12-29

As there doesn't seam to be any better names comming up, and the PyChess + subtitle
(not codename) Champion system works well, I don't think there is any reason to keep
this bug open further.

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