Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 21:16:07 06/14/04
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On June 14, 2004 at 15:55:28, Ricardo Gibert 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): >> >>(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. I hope that people in our community are honest enough not to cheat in this way. (And if people really were successful with such a cheat - paying the 1,000 Euro would not ruin me. However, if a cheat would be detected afterwords the names of the cheaters would be on the/my websites for decades...) Ingo Althofer.
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