SchemingMind.com in association with the ISRCA presents The Stanley Random Chess 2007 Internet World Championship Knock Out Tournament
- 1st Prize 500,000 Old Turkish Lira + 1 year subscription to schemingmind.com
- 2nd Prize 200 Philippine Peso + schemingmind.com hat (one size fits all)
- 3rd Prize 10 Saudi Riyals + schemingmind.com cup
Time controls Standard 30+1, Official Start date 1st April 2007, Actual start date TBA
This is first Internet World Championship dedicated completely to Stanley Random
Chess. An International Tournament of the highest standard. The overall winner will
be crowned the SRC 2007 Internet World Champion, a title fully endorsed by the ISRCA.
Open to all skill levels (even those who have never played before). Test your mettle
& play against some of the finest minds that have ever moved a pawn across the board.
http://www.schemingmind.com/minitournament.aspx?tournament_id=1806
Endorsements
GM Topov
I would like to go on record as being fully supportive of the notion of a Stanley
Random Chess Internet World Championship, open to the public. It is common knowledge
that I won 13 world championships prior to my retirement, including an unprecedented
eight consecutive victories from 1982-1989, and so I hope this will give my support
some credibility and weight. Just as the 1962 World Championships embraced the concept
of instant TV replays, the time is now ripe to embrace the technology of the internet,
and take SRC to a new level, a new audience, and a new competition.
About SRC
Stanley Random Chess, nobody knows the true origin of SRC, controversial new evidence
indicates that it was first played during the Spanish conquest of Incas in 1524. Legend
goes that during one battle Francisco Pizarro captured a heroic young man of noble birth.
Not knowing that the young man was the emperor Atahualpa in disguise, Pizarro decided
upon a cunning plan of playing chess to befriend the prisoner, in an effort to gain information.
Pizarro unfortunately was a despicably bad player and could not remember the all rules.
Never-the-less he taught the emperor, but all his efforts to gain information went in vain.
Once Atahualpa escaped he was so taken by the game that a royal decree was implemented.
Word of the variation was later passed back to Europe via the hoare houses of Curzo.
Another popular theory more traditionally accepted as true, states that its origins lie within the
Norman Conquest of Britain in 1066. William the conqueror was so impressed by the skill
during the battle of Hastings, of one of his solders, that he immediately knighted the man and
pronounced him Sir Stanley after a beloved family pet. Sir Stanley felt that his good fortune
lent itself to his mental preparation which he had horned over the chess boards in Normandy.
And as a tribute to his success endorsed a yearly chess competition. It was not until the
year 1485 when the family gained the Earldom of Derby that they learnt the forerunner of
SRC which was taught to them by the Ferris family. This was then passed down however the
rules were continually adapted by each further generation until modern Stanley Random
Chess, as we know it today, had evolved.