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From: EHARNDEN@AUVM.BITNET (Eric Harnden)
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Subject: Re: the meaning of 'atari'
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Date: 9 Apr 89 15:59:14 GMT
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atari is go's equivalent of 'check' in chess. 'checkmate' is 'sente', which
was under consideration for a while as the name of the company that
nolan bushnell would use when he re-entered the pc market... which he
didn't.

Eric Harnden (Ronin)
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The American University Physics Dept.
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