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Originally Posted by Dire
If you'll put money up, I'll likely be more than happy to do it. Otherwise it's not really worth my time.
How much would it take? I will escrow up to $10k to anyone reliable on FTP, as long as you do the same, at 1:1 odds.
If you are prepared to offer odds we can do the same bet where Chessmaster or some other crappy program has white.
Here are the terms as I see them:
The final position that Rybka / Chessmaster gets to has to be one with this exact pawn structure, the black king on f8 or e7, and the white king and bishop anywhere inconsequential.
The original position has to be winnable for white. Rybka/Chessmaster is allowed to think about their move for 3 minutes. We agree on someone reliable to run Rybka latest version / chessmaster latest version on their machine, which has to be reasonably competent (doesn't need to be 8 cores, but some single core 2ghz crap is obviously not a reliable test of what the chess engine would actually do).
Last edited by Pyromantha; 03-12-2009 at 05:54 AM.