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Subject: Re: Palestine Chess Programmers Price

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 10:38:03 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:
>
>>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):
>
>Why is this important?  Who cares if there is a palestinian chess engine or not.
> Honestly I don't understand why you guys hate each other.
>
>>(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.


Nothing against Arasan, Amateur, and The Baron but I'd call "strong amateurs"
ones in Div 1 and up in Leo's Tournaments - ie PostModernist and Movei. :)

Dan H.

>
>>(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), but the
>only other Israeli programs I know of are Falcon (pretty strong) and Junior
>(obviously very strong).
>
>>(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.
>
>anthony



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