Author: Theo van der Storm
Date: 13:41:54 08/29/01
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On August 29, 2001 at 05:37:17, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >>1. Amateur: >> You cannot be an amateur if you earn money by the selling of your program, >> (that would be a commercial interest), so the amateurs cannot be receiving >> money from the game-company... > >How about programmers who had once (say 2 years ago) obtained an amount of money >for publishing their program (i guess young talents fall into this). Do they >have to be non-Amateurs for the rest of their lives ? > >I'm sorry, but I think it's not possible to make a clear and fair >classification. I think it is possible. Even if my text is still not good anough and needs a lawyer to fix it. Here goes my 1,5ct worth: amateur: A programmer is an amateur if he is not a professional, nor an employd scientist involved with game-theory at any time and has not received money for his game-development in the last 12 months. semi-professional: A programmer is a semi-professional if he is not an amateur nor a professional. professional: A programmer is a professional if during any full year his income from game-development has been bigger than any other part of his income. So: Once a professional, always a professional. A professional in Chess-programming must also be considered a professional in Amazons-programming. Switching between amateur and semi-professional is possible depending on the circumstances. > IMHO, one should omit this nonsense completely. IMHO, one should omit this needless frustration completely. As a matter of fact in the Dutch Computer-chess championship we never had such a distinction and I'm not proposing to introduce it either. So my text is just an advice in case ICCA does continue on this road. >Regards, Uli >... >>I feel the definitions need mending. My internet connection is about >>to break due to idle(eh?) time, so I cannot give my proposed exact >>definitions yet. Maybe later. >> >>Theo Theo van der Storm (I'm back)
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