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Subject: Re: Palestine Chess Programmers Price

Author: Dan Honeycutt

Date: 10:47:44 06/14/04

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On June 14, 2004 at 13:29:46, Ingo Althofer wrote:

>On June 14, 2004 at 13:02:15, Dan Honeycutt 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):
>>>
>>>(1) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess
>>>programmer whose baby gets more than 2,200
>>>rating points (equivalent to SSDF scaling).
>>>
>>
>>
>>You say later that Leo will help with the rating and it's not necessary to be on
>>the SSDF list.  I don't see how you determine "equivalent to SSDF" if it's not
>>on the list - or are you saying the engine would qualify if it is rated 2200 on
>>Leo's list?
>
>In my eyes there is not much of a difference between SSDF-ratings
>and the ratings by Leo Dijkman.
>Example: Crafty
>in SSDF   2616
>in Leo's  2634
>
>So, 2200 with respect to Leo's list would be ok with me.
>
>Ingo Althofer.

Thanks for the reply Ingo.  1000 euro is not a small sum of money so if you have
not already done so you may want to write up rules in detail so an unclear point
does not result in a dispute.

Good luck with this project.
Dan H.




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