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Subject: Re: Palestine Chess Programmers Price

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 08:39:02 06/14/04

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On June 14, 2004 at 11:37:30, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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.

But of course first show a copy of your passport and if it doesn't say
PALESTINE...



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