Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 09:00:49 06/14/04
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On June 14, 2004 at 11:39:05, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On June 14, 2004 at 09:20:35, Ingo Althofer wrote: >> ... >>***************************************** >>*** Palestine Chess Programmers Price *** >>***************************************** >>To motivate Palestine programmers, I set >>up a price (with three levels): > >Why is this important? Who cares if there is a palestinian chess engine or not. It is perhaps not important, but my idea is that people who compete in an intellectual affair like computer chess will probably less likely bomb "the other side". (Unfortunately, "CTF" does not have an archive. Otherwise you might have aa easy look at the constructive discussion from early April 2004.) Barrenboim did something similar in classical music with his mixed arab-israeli-german youth orchestras. >>(1) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess >>programmer whose baby gets more than 2,200 >>rating points (equivalent to SSDF scaling). > >I think that is not too hard. I suspect many "strong amateurs" such as >PostModernist, Arasan, Amateur, The Baron, etc would meet that requirement. But, they are not Palestine programmers. >>(2) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess >>programmer whose baby beats an Israeli program >>in an ICGA world championship. > >As long as Uri competes this should be easy (probably easier than #1) ... Do not underestimate him. >>(3) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess >>programmer whose baby gets 50+ percent of the >>points in an ICGA world championship. > >That is a 4 year project at least. Maybe. Programmers have time until 2011.
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