Bot Name Origins

This page describes the origin or meaning behind the name for various Arimaa bots.

Bomb

I picked it because it alliterates with Bot, and because it I expected it to be strong tactically and weak strategically, like a bomb. I didn't put a lot of thought into it.

-- David Fotland [1]

Clueless

A description of its style of play.

GnoBot

GnoBot combines the root from gnosis meaning to know and is filled out with bot to rhyme with robot. [2]

Loc

The name is derived from location because of the way moves are generated from piece locations [3]

OpFor

The name comes from a military abreviation for Opposing Force

Zombie

I had/have envisioned writing a bot that uses neural networks heavily in the static evaluator, and planned to call it bot_Brain or bot_Cortex. Zombie, being a fork of bot_Fairy, isn't that bot.

Thus, bot_Zombie is the bot without a brain...

-- IdahoEv [4]