Help me name things!

[Thanasimos]

Fellow CoGgers, I am at an impasse. I have been accepted to a summer research program at school this year. My proposal is quite simple; I must write a chess engine, and give it an interface geared toward teaching chess, particularly wordlessly so that literacy does not affect its usefulness. This stuff I firmly believe I can handle.

Incidentally, the project is required to be open source. What this means: By tomorrow, I have to have a web presence for the project, namely a blog, wiki and project hosting. I firmly believe I can handle these tasks as well.

HOWEVER, in order to complete them, I need to have a name for the project. I have none. This is where you come in, CoG: Help me name my project! Since it's academia type stuff, it definitely needs to have a punny name (This is a real trend, you know), but that is the only real requirement outside of the name fitting

If there's more than one suggestion, in six hours I will put up a poll between them. Thank you in advance, CoG!

[Hotcod]

Open Gambit

job done :P

[Pigeon]

Open Gambit

job done :P

I can't beat this

[Thanasimos]

Open Gambit

job done :P

That's. . . that's really good. And to think, I brainstormed for hours, then and now!

[Hotcod]

*takes a bow*

But honestly I just got lucky. Was just running through things in my head trying to find a connection between open and chess and stumbled on to it

open and chess
open knight, king, queen?
open board?
open move?
opening move...
opening gambit...
open gambit!

and ya it just seemed so perfect that I didn't bother carrying on :D

[Handmade.Mercury]

Natal.

10char

[Arphahat]

I'm definitely interested in your project. Make sure you keep us informed on Open Gambit.

[Narradisall]

Hypercompuglobalmeganet!

[Spectre-7]

The name OpenGambit is already in use, (http://www.opengambit.com/cms/) if such a thing matters to you.

[Thanasimos]

The name OpenGambit is already in use, (http://www.opengambit.com/cms/) if such a thing matters to you.

I did google for it and found that, but I am admittedly a touch unconcerned. It's a miniature company from hawaii with next to zero web presence, and which hasn't touched its website since last year and may well never touch it again. If I get C&D'd or something, I'll just come back here for a different name. But I don't really expect that to happen. After all, my chess program is for the good of the world, definitely not for a grad school application, so, you know, karma says I win.

[Arphahat]

I did google for it and found that, but I am admittedly a touch unconcerned. It's a miniature company from hawaii with next to zero web presence, and which hasn't touched its website since last year and may well never touch it again. If I get C&D'd or something, I'll just come back here for a different name. But I don't really expect that to happen. After all, my chess program is for the good of the world, definitely not for a grad school application, so, you know, karma says I win.

Also, it is completely unrelated to chess. Since the two "Open Gambits" are so dissimilar, you would likely be able to keep the name even if they complained about it.

[Spectre-7]

Understandable position. Just wanted to make sure ya knew.

Also, it is completely unrelated to chess. Since the two "Open Gambits" are so dissimilar, you would likely be able to keep the name even if they complained about it.

Generally speaking (IANAL of course, and this is just from admittedly shoddy memory), the criteria by which trademark cases are judged are in no particular order: 1) Potential for confusion among customers/clients, 2) Type of business (or business domain), and 3) Region. I personally wouldn't expect the type of software involved to matter very much; rather, they're both in the general domain of software/information technology, so the overlap is rather significant.

All that being said, I don't see any evidence that they've registered OpenGambit as a trademark, and there is some question as to how active that particular business is. It's probably not really anything to worry about, but I thought it best to at least inform him. :)

[maharahaj]

Also, it is completely unrelated to chess.

Despite the fact that the picture of at the top of their web page clearly displays a chess board with transparent playing pieces?

[Talanvor]

Yeah but it's talking about simplifying your IT, not capturing queens with rooks.

[Thanasimos]

Understandable position. Just wanted to make sure ya knew.

It was good of you to pass your concerns along, no doubt about it. Some people would have been caught by surprise.

[Arphahat]

Generally speaking (IANAL of course, and this is just from admittedly shoddy memory), the criteria by which trademark cases are judged are in no particular order: 1) Potential for confusion among customers/clients, 2) Type of business (or business domain), and 3) Region. I personally wouldn't expect the type of software involved to matter very much; rather, they're both in the general domain of software/information technology, so the overlap is rather significant.

All that being said, I don't see any evidence that they've registered OpenGambit as a trademark, and there is some question as to how active that particular business is. It's probably not really anything to worry about, but I thought it best to at least inform him. :)

It could conceivably be judged that the overlap is significant, but as one of them works on developing IT solutions and one is a chess tutor, the reality is that the overlap would be pretty trivial. No one who is looking for IT help is going to be confused by chess software, and vice versa.

Regardless, the company seems small enough that there likely won't be any concern.

[Handmade.Mercury]

Skynet.

10char

[Hawkzombie]

Open Gambit is pretty damn impressive. Remind me to get Hotcod to name all my projects as well.

[Narradisall]

Yeah, I couldn't really beat Open Gambit either.

I say lets hijack the thread for all the names that had no chance!

[Thanasimos]

Yeah, I couldn't really beat Open Gambit either.

I say lets hijack the thread for all the names that had no chance!

Put a positive spin on it. Names that are too awesome to be conceivably used in an academic setting.

[Hawkzombie]

Names that are too awesome to be conceivably used in an academic setting.

ThunderTits™

[Arphahat]

ThunderTits™

I was thinking more along the lines of "ChestyChess", but that works, too.

[evilgoodwin]

The Sex Preventer.

[Handmade.Mercury]

Penis In Vagina.

[Hawkzombie]

The Sex Preventer.

I thought that was already named: Colony of Gamers

[Arphahat]

The Chess Fucker

[evilgoodwin]

I thought that was already named: Colony of Gamers

Well played.

[Thanasimos]

Just dropping by to say that Hotcod's name KEEPS ON GIVING. For example, it can be rendered in a url as opengambitchess. Tell me that isn't awesome, bitches! :D

[Hotcod]

Just dropping by to say that Hotcod's name KEEPS ON GIVING. For example, it can be rendered in a url as opengambitchess. Tell me that isn't awesome, bitches! :D

LMAO! I feel like a proud father :D

[Pigeon]

Queen Takes Knight.. In My Pants

[Narradisall]

PaWNED!

Yeah, I went there.

[Kielaran]

Just dropping by to say that Hotcod's name KEEPS ON GIVING. For example, it can be rendered in a url as opengambitchess. Tell me that isn't awesome, bitches! :D

That is just wonderful.

[Hawkzombie]

I read that as Open Game Bitchess

[Thanasimos]

I read that as Open Game Bitchess

Exactly. I resisted the urge to use that anywhere, though. It was difficult not to, but that's life.

[Hawkzombie]

Oh man...it's just too wicked awesome. You're a stronger man than I, that's for sure.