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. > -- > NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren! > Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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