Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:23:18 03/30/04
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On March 30, 2004 at 16:47:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. It seems that he does not care about small improvement like 40 elo. He is going for bigger improvement. Uri
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