Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 21:28:21 06/14/04
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On June 14, 2004 at 16:25:23, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >On June 14, 2004 at 09:20:35, Ingo Althofer wrote: >> >> >>***************************************** >>*** Palestine Chess Programmers Price *** >>***************************************** >>... >>... > >A very good initiative. I sincerely hope there would be programmers who would >win the prize. Thanks for your moral support. >>"Applicants have to be Arabs, and they need to have >>permanent residence within 34° and 36° East, and >>within 28° and 34 ° North." > >These geographical coordinations also include Israel, and of course you wouldn't >consider an Arab who is living in Israel and has Israeli citizenship eligible, >as his program would officially be considered an Israeli program. Maybe I step in a pothole now or show big lack of understanding the "local" circumstances, but I want to allow citizens of Israel as long as they are non-jewish arabs. When this is nonsense, please explain why. Would it be politically correct to formulate "Applicants have to be non-jewish Arabs, and ..."? >So a better >definition would be: a person living in an area controlled by the Palestinian >Authority (or someone who holds a Palestinian Authority issued ID card). I think >that is the definition used by the International Olympic Committee. How many Palestinians have a "Palestinian Authority issued ID card"? Isn't it a fraction only? >Also, looking at Leo's list of engines >(http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/Total.html), I don't see any engine from an Arab >country (Hydra cannot be considered an Arab engine, as its author is Austrian). Hydra of course does not count. >I think it would be better if you extend your prize to the whole Arab world. The >following are the Arab countries (members of the Arab League): > >Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, >Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine (represented by PLO), Qatar, Saudi >Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. No intention on my side for such an extension. There would be no chance for me to check what is happening in all these states. Ingo Althofer.
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