Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 02:05:55 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 00:28:21, Ingo Althofer wrote: >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. An Arab living in Israel isn't much difference from an Arab living in Germany or Netherlands. And in another post I read that you don't consider an Arab living in Netherlands eligible... > >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? More than three million Palestinians who live in West Bank and Gaza all have Palestinian ID cards (in comparison to about one million Arabs who are Israeli citizens). > > >>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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