SteveB has offered to add to the prize fund a Guaranteed appearance fee to GM Benjamin of $1500, if the pawn odds is removed. 

SteveB proposes the following alternatives:

1. The GM plays White 4 games against a fully loaded Rybka with full Noomen book and full table bases

with the Black pieces the GM receives DRAW ODDS(meaning that a draw is scored as a win for black)
book limited to 5 moves..full table bases

2. if the GM will not agree to that then another possibility is for the GM
as Black to receive pawns odds(and therefore no book ) table bases allowed

the pawn to be removed is randomly chosen at the start of each game by the drawing of lots(sealed letters a-h)
each successive pawns odds game will be chosen from the remaining pawns so as not to repeat the same pawn being removed.

SteveB would send the money by Paypal to Kaufman or the Rybka Paypal site(to be turned over to Kaufman) immediately as soon as SteveB is contacted by either Kaufman or Rajlich so that they had the money in their hands well in advance of even mentioning the proposal to the GM.  If Benjamin agrees the money is paid upon his appearance at Kaufmans home on the scheduled start day of the match..if he does not the money is returned to SteveB.  

original thread where SteveB requested someone post his offer here: http://64.68.157.89/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15147&postdays=0&postorder=asc&topic_view=&start=0