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Subject: Re: Palestine Chess Programmers Price

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 08:39:05 06/14/04

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On June 14, 2004 at 09:20:35, Ingo Althofer wrote:

>This is a (more detailed) repetition of the price
>announcement, made on April 5, 2004 in "Chess Thinkers
>Forum".
>Please, help to spread the announcement.
>
>*****************************************
>*** Palestine Chess Programmers Price ***
>*****************************************
>To motivate Palestine programmers, I set
>up a price (with three levels):

Why is this important?  Who cares if there is a palestinian chess engine or not.
 Honestly I don't understand why you guys hate each other.

>(1) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess
>programmer whose baby gets more than 2,200
>rating points (equivalent to SSDF scaling).

I think that is not too hard.  I suspect many "strong amateurs" such as
PostModernist, Arasan, Amateur, The Baron, etc would meet that requirement.

>(2) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess
>programmer whose baby beats an Israeli program
>in an ICGA world championship.

As long as Uri competes this should be easy (probably easier than #1), but the
only other Israeli programs I know of are Falcon (pretty strong) and Junior
(obviously very strong).

>(3) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess
>programmer whose baby gets 50+ percent of the
>points in an ICGA world championship.

That is a 4 year project at least.

anthony



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