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Subject: Re: Palestine Chess Programmers Price

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 11:42:08 06/14/04

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On June 14, 2004 at 12:44:00, Günther Simon wrote:

>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.
>>
>>>(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).
>
>If you want to imply that Movei does not reach 2200 SSDF rating
>you are definetely wrong here. In fact it must be quite an effort
>to construct a fake list with real competitors where Movei would
>not reach that goal.
>If you said this only because it affords only 1 win in a single
>game, as we all know what can happen in a single game it would
>still be not *easy*.(in a common sense meaning of the word)
>
>Günther

Mainly I just enjoy poking Uri.  Whenever I post something he always replies "I
see no reason for it.  You cannot prove it. etc", so I tweak him when I can.

anthony

>>>(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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