Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 12:55:28 06/14/04
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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). Given that 2200 is not a particularly high standard, there are an awful lot of amateur programs that are strong enough. One of them is bound to lend their program to a palestinian in order to milk you out of 1000 Euro. It will be very hard to guard against this, but good luck to you. > >(2) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess >programmer whose baby beats an Israeli program >in an ICGA world championship. Given the time and expense it takes to compete in an ICGA world champioship, 1000 euro is not much of an incentive. > >(3) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess >programmer whose baby gets 50+ percent of the >points in an ICGA world championship. This has the same problem as (2). > >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.") > > >Ingo Althofer. >*************************************************** > > >--------------------- Comments --------------------------- >(i) Leo Dijksman is willing to help with testing >for the 2200 level. (So applicants do not need to >have their programs in the SSDF list.) > >(ii) Amir Ban has written already in early April 2004: >"... The day that Arabs decide to equal or better Israelis >in competitive and intellectual achievements will also be >the day the conflict ends." >"...I'll double the price" > >(iii) Peter Berger has also offered help. >---------------------------------------------------------
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