SchemingMind.com in association with the ISRCA presents the Stanley Random Chess MMXI (2011) Internet World Championship Knock Out Tournament
- 1st Prize 1,000,000 Old Turkish Lira + 1 year subscription
- 2nd Prize 50 Bulgarian Lev (2nd) + 1 year subscription
- 3rd Prize 10 Rupees + 1 year subscription (two prizes)
- Brillancy Prize (see below)
Time controls Standard 30+1, Official Start date 1st April 2011, Actual start date 14th May 2011.
This is Third Internet World Championship sponsored by the ISRCA which is dedicated completely to Stanley Random Chess. The Premier SRC International Tournament of the highest standard. The overall winner will be crowned the SRC MMXI (2011) Internet World Champion, a title fully endorsed by the ISRCA. Test your mettle & play against some of the finest minds that have ever jumped a knight across the board.
http://www.schemingmind.com/minitournament.aspx?tournament_id=5303
Rule Changes for MMXI
In honour of SRC's colourful and lengthy history (see below article) this year's tournament with have Romanesque theme. The usual SRC tournament blazer and tie will be replaced with Roman clothing. Competitors must supply their own plain white togas and laurel wreaths (specifications are available on the IRSCA website), but the tournament organisers will provide boards, pieces, curule seating and grapes. The traditional SRC tournament goodwill greeting handshake is to be replaced with the Roman ""hail ------"" greeting (Ideally a Roman translation of your opponents name should be used e.g. Austin = Austinus). Failure to honour the strict dress code and tournament etiquette may result in Volume XXIV, Chapter 7, Rules 94a-f (Bulgarian Treaty) being enforced. Rule 94g ""Non-conformance of Compulsory Consumption of Food"" will not be enforced due to the ""Sour grape incident"" per Addendum XVI Chapter 12, ruling I8I8I6.
Brilliancy Prize
This year an additional prize is on offer. A specially selected committee chaired by the renowned player Squibber, will decide which game and player is worthy of the SRC Internet World Championship Brilliancy Prize. The prize will be awarded 50% based on the actual moves of the game and 50% based on the player's in game annotations. In keeping with our Roman theme and general monetary prize policy the winner will be awarded a Genuine Roman Coin, plus the Squibber Brilliancy Trophy (henceforth known as the ""Squibby"") which has been commissioned by the chairman himself and forged by the expert hands of our very own Neoliminal.
Players are forewarned and advised that annotations which reference Roman terminology will be automatically allocated a additional bonus score. Extra Brownie points are awarded for using Latin (real or bogus or pig) during play. Thus pig Latin such as ""ixnay eenquay"" is worth two brownie points, bogus Latin ""Kingus Interruptus"" is worth three, and real Latin, such as (""caito ergo sum"" (used appropriately, which is hard to imagine in a game but you never know,) would be worth a whopping 5 points. Inappropriately used Latin or erroneous conjugations would result in point penalties, and the requirement to write it correctly on a Blackboard 100 times. As usual Brownie Points are of no practical value but convey immense status.
Endorsements
Racy
Sitting in the sun, sipping a bottle of beer, and listening to SRC World Championships on the radio. And my wife approves this kind of behavior!!
Lemme Howdt
I do play Stanley Random Chess, so i get to handle lots of things on the fly. SRC is a tough game to play - the burden of proof is on the person moving the game forward - but GM's have an agenda and there is very little new theory available to the public.
sthorwall
Some people like Earl Grey, some people like Irish Breakfast, some people like their coffee black, and some people like empty cups. *shrug* To each his own, even if they are missing out. Pardon me while I brew a cup of SRC. Please don't call it boring; I rather enjoy it.
Jerry Sven (PSRCA)
A most inspirational tournament.
SRC and the history of the IX legion by Squibber
Julius Caesar commanded the IX Legion in Spain in 61BC and brought them to Gaul in 58BC and
other campaigns before disbanding them. Octavian recalled the veterans to fight in Sicily against the
ingenious Sextus Pompeius and then against Mark Antony at Actium. But It was first noted during the
noted reign of Caligula, that the IX were recorded playing the game of Arcana Imperii in any official
state tournaments. Newly found evidence from scholars points to Arcana Imperii surviving the fall of
Rome, and returning many centuries later to us as Stanley Random Chess. Sent by Claudius to
conquer Britain with Aulus Platus in 43AD the IX bought Arcana Imperii with them including the full
set of rule books. The IX legion, regarded as the very best of AI players in the Roman army, set out
on an evangelical quest to spread AI all around Britain. Centres of AI were established wherever the
Ninth were stationed including Longthorpe, Newark-on-Trent and finally Ovidium; their fort at York.
Later sometime around 120AD the IX became restless, having fought no major battles during the last
years on the ground or on the 64 squares.
Septimus Aulius, centurion of the Ninth and captain of the Ovidium AI team proposed hosting the
All Britianna Championships. Apart from the massive logistical considerations the political climate of
this time in Northern Britain was somewhat unstable. The Brigantes were still rebellious, despite an
utter defeat at Stanwick by the IX under Ceralias and the XX. Caledonia was still free and fighting.
Realising Ovidium (York) to be an unsafe location, Aulius used his influence to secure patronage from
none other than the emperor himself. Rome agreed to finance his proposal and a fortified wall spread
across North Britain from coast to coast was built in order to host the event. AI had never seen the
like of ""Hadrian's Tournament"" before, (as it was named after its patron). Matches were held at each
impregnable fort protected from Celtic dissidents by numerous armed garrisons. Legions, praetorians
and vigils played together with British and Gaelic tribes. Little is known of the tournament results and
events surrounding of the AI final. Though Tertullian 160-220 AD states much later that the surprised
victor was the Druid team from Angelsey. Allegedly in the final the Druid's oldest player ""Stan of Lee""
easily defeated Aulius by using his Shuffling Dragon Gambit, shocking all of Ancient Rome. Recent
new proposed theory claims that it was this venerable master that gave his name to the game we know
today as Stanley Random Chess. Only with time and further research will the truth be confirmed.