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Topic: Stanley Random Chess
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Simpler rules: yeah.
Less dubious history: ? It's not like you enjoy any kind of credibility around here.
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Sorry, Evyen, seigneur, you will have to find the way in for yourselves. But please attempt to do so. Until that time, you really do not know what you are missing. Your loss...
Cordially, F.
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| I ordered their rulebook online. Not that expensive really, considering it has 347 pages... |
At the last count, the official ISRC Federation handbook consisted of 175 volumes (which have to be transported to tournaments by articulated lorry). Unfortunately, this is why it has not been possible to reproduce the rules here.
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Rats!
So that means I was stuck with the concise version, and not warned about it. Next time I go to Bad Homburg, I hope it will be in a tactical bomber!!
However, any beginning is better than no gumption at all. So in that sense, I should feel honoured upon being introduced to SRC, even if I will still not be able to grasp all the complexities of it, and hence shall remain tournament fodder for the time being...
F.
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See the entire article by Gregory Topov here: http://www.geocities.com/verdrahciretop/src.html Other stuff he's written on SR is linked at the bottom.
He's also created the SR module for schemingmind.com, apparently.
Here he is defending his Wikipedia article (essentially identical to his Introduction, apparently) from being deleted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Stanley_Random_Chess
"The two main differences from regular chess are correctly described under the "Rules" section, i.e. approximately 50% of moves are randomly selected by a computer; and if the game goes beyond 30 moves, the game can apparently randomly end at any moment, the winner being the player with most material. If you try playing online at schemingmind.com, you will find these facts to be true, and that the game plays exactly in this way."
So I guess the idea was to do a "Blair Witch" job: create a little buzz and watch it snowball. Connecting Stanley the chess monkey with the Stanley Cup and Stanley tools was pretty good. And the reference to Goldman and Morgenstern had me laughing.
I just wish he hadn't tried to use Wikipedia for his little prank.
Paul
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