Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:13:55 05/31/02
Rolf raised an interesting point. To him, the SSDF list is not very interesting unless you can be sure of the connection to human strength. From: http://home.interact.se/~w100107/welcome.htm We see that there are now: 14,378 games in the SSDF database. If you could convince GM's to play for $100/game with full concentration, that would amount to $1,437,800.00 I suspect that GM's get 5-10x that amount (depending upon their ability). If we could convince them to play for $350.00 per game, it would cost about five million dollars. $350 is not a lot of money, but with a huge number of games as a potential, I suspect that a lot of GM's could be talked into it because it would be a source of steady income. We could have bonus dollars for wins and a lesser amount for losses to make sure that they were trying really hard. Actually, it's not as bad as I thought. I wonder if the chess program manufacturers might want to cough up some of that cash.
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