Author: stuart taylor
Date: 08:37:47 12/22/02
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On December 22, 2002 at 09:32:50, Bob Durrett wrote: >On December 22, 2002 at 05:51:33, stuart taylor wrote: > >>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. >> >>You would pay him according to the acceptable rate for a consultant.A modest >>consultant at first. If that includes a percentage, that should never exceed 1%. >>Well, even if we should say 5%, that wouldn't bring in huyge money either, >>unless it wins a large share in a $1000,000 prize, and even that isn't exactly >>like winning a lottery for the 5% of the consultant. >>S.Taylor > >You would only give him 5%????? > >Bob D. As an extra, besides general payment. If the whole payment is according to % It's difficult to measure how much it was due to the consultant(s) that the pogram succeeded, isn't it? (But if very active and helpful, then I can understand it being 20%, or possibly more. It depends on how much more the programmer has to do, also). I believe Kasparov was helping Saitek a long time ago. I also think Turbo King 2 was amazingly good (in its results), considering how little power it worked on. But I don't know how much Kasparov was paid. I thought it was mainly for his name, plus a few words of advice or something. S.Taylor > > >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>>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
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