*This* is exactly the kind of bravado that I was waiting to see
explain the monetary offer.

Bravo, Jouni! And good luck!

(BTW: don't back down on fischer timing. It's your money, after all!)

s.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Jouni Valkonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stefan, that is common misconception. There is perhaps not even single
> public game between human and strong computer with slow champion level time
> controls. Therefore you cannot derive gobot's strenght from its blitz
> strenght. Unlike gobots humans are cunning because they can plan, count and
> read ahead if given unlimited time.
>
> Jouni
>
> On Jun 14, 2011 5:56 PM, "Stefan Kaitschick" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>>>> 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.
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> * 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.
>>>>
>>>> Ingo.
>> X-Prize means that it's a prize, not a wager.
>> So the bot side isn't risking money.
>>
>> But the problem seems to me, that with recent bot advances the bot would
>> be favorite against even a 3 dan.
>> So to make it interesting, by now you need a 4 dan challenge.
>>
>> Stefan
>>
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