Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:04:22 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 06:09:47, Andreas Herrmann wrote: >On June 15, 2004 at 05:20:14, Ingo Althofer wrote: > >>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! > >off course Ingo, i hope you have seen my ";-)". >But i still say that level 1 is much to easy nowadays. Ok it's your money. >If someone would give each programmer 1000€ for a chess program which would >reach level 1 until the end of 2004, i'm sure we would have many hundreds or >perhaps many thousands of chess programs above 2200 ELO around the world then. >And believe me, to reach that, you don't need to know more than the chess rules. >Just some basic programmer knowledge and the ability to read english documents >is enough, because nearby all chess programming papers are written in english. >But all in all i like your project and hope a Palestine programmer will read >your offer and has the ability to develope a chess program. In each case, good >luck from me. > >Andreas Why not write one yourself to start with to proof there can be hundreds of german programs by end of 2004?
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