Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 02:20:14 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 02:59:38, Andreas Herrmann wrote: >On June 15, 2004 at 02:10:31, Andreas Herrmann wrote: > >>On June 14, 2004 at 09:20:35, Ingo Althofer wrote: >>> >>>***************************************** >>>*** Palestine Chess Programmers Price *** >>>***************************************** >>>... >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. It is fully intended that task (1) is the easiest, because "getting started is most difficult". >2) And perhaps until 2009 there are also some new Israeli chess programs, which >are much weaker than the three known of today. That would be almost a miracle. >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 ;-) Please, stay honest - and that is meant for all you senior programmers! Ingo Althofer.
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