Author: Andreas Herrmann
Date: 23:59:38 06/14/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 02:10:31, Andreas Herrmann 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). >> > >Hi Ingo, > >a great project! Better fighting with intellect than with bombs. >But point 1 is much too easy, because there are many open source projects >besides Crafty, which would reach your first point like Pepito, Amy, Fruit, >Phalanx, Resp, Arasan, Exchess, GNU Chess, Beowulf, Booot and perhaps a lot >more. Each programmer, could change one of the above source codes, so that no >one will ever see, that it is just a changed clone. > >best wishes >Andreas > > > Just some other points: 1) Until 2007, the hardware is perhaps much faster than nowadays, which would make it more easier to reach the 2200 ELO. 2) And perhaps until 2009 there are also some new Israeli chess programs, which are much weaker than the three known of today. 3) So i think, the only realy hard level is perhaps level 3. And i think, to reach level 1, it would be enough to copy the search functions of one of the above open sources and add some basic chess knowledge in the eval functions. I'm sure 99% of all programmers on the world could reach that in a few weeks, without knowing much about chess. It would be enough to know the chess rules. So i would set level 1 to 2400 or 2500 ELO, this would be a real level. I think also my weak engine BlackBishop would reach level 1 at the moment. And i'm not a chess player and have spent only a few hours per year in the last 5 years in the development of my engine. If there is a Palestine programmer, who wants the money for level 1, i can write him the program or the basic parts of the program ;-). And then we divide the money. Because i have no job as a programmer since one and a halv year, 500€ would be realy much money for me ;-) Andreas >>(2) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess >>programmer whose baby beats an Israeli program >>in an ICGA world championship. >> >>(3) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess >>programmer whose baby gets 50+ percent of the >>points in an ICGA world championship. >> >>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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