This doesn't seem like a very smart wager for the human.  But, 1000 is not a
huge amount.  Maybe he's just willing to sacrifice it to stir up some
interest.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:53 PM, "Ingo Althöfer" <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks to Willemien to bring up this information.
>
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > on http://www.suomigo.net/wiki/JouniValkonen
> > There is another challenge:
> >
> > X-Prize#
> >
> > If someone makes a gobot that wins me on best of 5 match (80 40
> > fischer), I will pay for the programmer €1000 X-prize. Prize will be
> > in effect for the next 2000 years or when the winner of the
> > competition has been found. Challenges can be played during European
> > Go Congress, but I accept them only after successful preliminaries
> > played on rapid time settings at KGS.
> > ...
>
>
>
> Some questions and comments from my side:
> * which rules: chinese?
>
> * "best of five" is clear for me, but what means "80 40 fischer"?
> Is it 80 minutes base time + 40 seconds increment for each move played?
>
> * Will the bot be allowed to play with remote hardware?
>
> * European Go Congress 2011 is in Bordeaux:
> July 23 to August 06. There is a very strong french bot around.
> Remi might find sponsors who back him with 1,000 Euro.
>
> * European Go Congress 2012 will be in Bonn (Germany):
> July 21 to August 04. There should be German sponsors to
> back a programmer with 1,000 Euro.
>
> * Which account is Jouni on KGS now?
>
> Ingo.
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