The 2nd World Wide Championship Progressive Fischer Random
Chess
In the end of 1997, the second World Wide Championship Progressive Fischer
Random Chess has started. The first championship
has been finished in October 1997.
Progressive Fischer Random Chess means: we play progressive chess (first
white makes one move, then black makes two moves, then white makes three
moves, etc.), from a random position, generated in the way Bobby Fischer
proposed (for his non-progressive chess variant.)
There are a few details: see the rules of Fischer
Random Chess, and Scottish
Random Chess. (We play the Scottish version of progressive chess,
which means that your turn end when you give check.)
You could sign in for this championship. To sign in:
Make sure you understand the rules of the game, and that you will
have a reliable connection to the internet until summer 1998. Also, note
that correspondence will be in English, so please only sign in, when you
are able to read and write at least a little English or have someone
willing to translate for you.
Send an email with: your name, your email address, your home town
and country, and the words: `Participate in 2nd WW Championship
Progressive Fischer Random Chess', before November 21, 1997 to
Hans Bodlaender.
The rules followed in the second championship are more or less those of
the first, with a few differences, most notable:
Players play a number (up to 6) games simultaneously.
Players have 50 days of `thinking time' for their first 5 turns, and
10 additional days for every additional turn. Players can claim a win
when their opponent has used up his or her thinking time.
It is forbidden to use a computer to analyse the games one plays while
they are ongoing. If there are at least two people interested, a
separate `with computer' competition could be held in parallel: if you
are interested, write me.
Again, depending on the number of participants, a multi-round
competition will be held. When there are enough participants, in the
first round, groups of approximately equal size will be formed, and each
player plays one game against each other player in a group. Groups will
be made randomly.
There are the following prices:
First price: John William Brown's book Meta-Chess. (Second edition.)