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Subject: Re: Palestine Chess Programmers Price

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 08:37:30 06/14/04

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On June 14, 2004 at 11:35:13, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 14, 2004 at 11:19:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On June 14, 2004 at 09:20:35, Ingo Althofer wrote:
>>
>>>This is a (more detailed) repetition of the price
>>>announcement, made on April 5, 2004 in "Chess Thinkers
>>>Forum".
>>>Please, help to spread the announcement.
>>>
>>>
>>>*****************************************
>>>*** Palestine Chess Programmers Price ***
>>>*****************************************
>>>To motivate Palestine programmers, I set
>>>up a price (with three levels):
>>
>>Your motivation is not clear. If someone is born in Palestina, his natural
>>parents have residence there, but he practically lives in for example
>>Netherlands, does that count too?
>>
>>You are going to exclude the only intelligent Palestinians alive?
>>
>>>(1) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess
>>>programmer whose baby gets more than 2,200
>>>rating points (equivalent to SSDF scaling).
>>
>>So it must have a fritz8 book, learning, and another shitload of features before
>>it can compete. Without chessbase learning you are lost of course and will keep
>>on losing there more and more.
>
>Diep has not fritz8 book and chessbase learning.
>Do you think that it cannopt get above 2200 for that reason?
>
>If your answer is negative then I do not understand why you assume that another
>programmer cannot do what you can do.
>
>
>>
>>I hope you realize Crafty also uses fritz8.ctg at SSDF.
>
>No
>It is using another book of chessbase and not fritz8.ctg
>
>It is also not Bob's choice and Ruffian does not use a book of chessbase in the
>ssdf and it is clearly above 2200.
>
>>
>>Without chessbase book and chessbase learning i'm not so sure whether crafty
>>would get much above 2200 there.
>
>I am sure that even movei can get above 2200 in the ssdf without chessbase
>learning and movei is weaker than Crafty.
>
>Uri

Ship it over there and prove it.




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