Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:47:05 03/30/04
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On March 30, 2004 at 14:49:55, Uri Blass wrote: >On March 30, 2004 at 14:08:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On March 29, 2004 at 14:26:30, Peter Skinner wrote: >> >>>On March 29, 2004 at 01:06:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>> >>>>For the first time in the International CSVN Tournaments substantial prize money >>>>is offered. PAL Group sponsors the tournament and makes available US$ 1500 for >>>>first prize, US$ 1000 for second prize and US$ 500 for third prize as well. >>> >>>Again I must state that this tournament is becoming better and better each year. >>>With the added incentive of a cash prize, I am sure there will be a record >>>number of participants. >>> >>>Peter >> >> >>From experience, cash prizes are _not_ good. ACM started doing this. The >>result was more incentive to cheat than anything else... > >I think that they can come together with the duty to give the source code of the >program before the tournament to somebody who left competition in computer chess >like Ernst Heinz(programmers of Dark thought). > >If the commercial programmers do not trust him they will not come but I believe >that strong amateurs are going to participate and I believe that the gap in >strength between professional programs and amateur is going to become smaller or >maybe even the amateurs will become better because I understand that Tord plan >to continue to improve gothmog and I guess that there are good chances that in >less than 2 years from today it will become number 1. He could add 40 Elo with a simple recompile using either Intel or MS VC++. Using the Cygwin compiler is a terrible handicap, most of the time.
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