Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 09:08:37 06/14/04
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On June 14, 2004 at 11:19:00, Vincent Diepeveen 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): > >Your motivation is not clear. I want to encourage people to compete in intellectual fields instead of fighting with stones, guns, and bombs. > If someone is born in Palestina, his natural > parents have residence there, but he practically lives in for example > Netherlands, does that count too? No, that does not count. Applicants have to live in Palestine/Israel. >You are going to exclude the only intelligent Palestinians alive? No. You find intelligent Palestinians not only in Germany or in NL. >>(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. Not neccesary. And I would accept if a programm achieves the 2200+ in matches where the other side has booklearning switched off. >>(2) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess >>programmer whose baby beats an Israeli program >>in an ICGA world championship. > >Your only hope is Uri changing nationality :) Or, Vincent taking Israeli citizenship ;) >Mathematically i see no problems there :) > >>(3) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess >>programmer whose baby gets 50+ percent of the >>points in an ICGA world championship. > >You can keep your money in your pocket. 50% is at most 1 point away from >unofficial 'amateur world champion'. that means a huge effort (if copying source >code from crafty is not allowed). You are not starting at such a project just to >win $1000. Maybe, people get motivation for more, when they get the first or the second prize. >If you already write a chessprogram and by accident are Palestinian >*then* you would want such a price, but it trivially means the price is a side >effect for software getting produced anyway. Not a main motivator. > >>Time limits: >>End of year 2007 for level (1), >>end of 2009 for level (2), >>end of 2011 for level (3). > >>I feel that "proper" definition of "Palestine chess >>programmer" is not easy. Therefore, in the price I >... >>make the following artificial definition: >>"Applicants have to be Arabs, and they need to have >>permanent residence within 34° and 36° East, and >>within 28° and 34 ° North." >>Details on request from >>althofer "at" minet.uni-jena.de >>Legal measures are excluded. >>(In German: "Der Rechtsweg ist ausgeschlossen.") > >Claims too with such conditions. I don't get the meaning. Can you explain? Ingo Althofer.
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