Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:16:02 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 18:04:22, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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? Maybe because you are not going to pay the poster 1000 euro for it. Uri
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