Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: $1 million up for grabs

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:23:01 12/21/02

Go up one level in this thread


On December 21, 2002 at 14:46:59, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On December 21, 2002 at 14:44:44, Arshad Syed wrote:
>
>>Can someone confirm this? I believe I read somewhere that the FIDE is going to
>>make the match between the top chess program and the World Chess Champion an
>>annual event. Going by the prize money involved recently, $1 mil. may soon
>>become a standard feature.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Arshad
>
>If my chess engine won, would I have to give Uri half of the prize money?
>
>Bob D.

Uri will have a fight within a few weeks with any programmer which is
above 'crafty level'. So don't worry about him ever dividing prize money
like that :)

>>
>>On December 21, 2002 at 12:49:34, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I believe that I have ideas that can help your program to get to commercial
>>>level or better than it in the next year.
>>>
>>>If you are interested in these ideas then you can send me an email and maybe we
>>>can work together and earn money from the ideas.
>>>
>>>I know that there are a lot of programmers near crafty level that do not earn
>>>money from their chess program so I believe that they cannot lose money from an
>>>agreement that gives part of the money that they will earn from chess programs
>>>to me because without me they are not going to earn money from their chess
>>>program.
>>>
>>>If I get replies I will decide if there is a programmer that I can trust and if
>>>the answer is positive then it is possible that we can sign a contract with a
>>>lawyer before I tell him my ideas.
>>>
>>>This may be also relevant to programmers of commercial programs who want to
>>>improve their program.
>>>
>>>Uri



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.