FIRST ANNUAL RGCP GRUDGE MATCH IS TODAY - SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2005 (details inside)
RGCP Grudge Match
- now the mail-delayed pledge of Stan Booz has been
co-signed/guaranteed by Randy Bauer, and
- the Match Arbiter has practiced entering moves into ICC, so this
means...
...the 1st Annual RGCP Grudge Match is ready to begin later this
(Sunday) morning!
You can follow the games of this wholly unique live event, the 1st
Annual RGCP Grudge Match, on the Internet Chess Club on Sunday, June
26th (TODAY)! Watch the players battle it out for a $1000 cash prize!
If you don't have an account or an ICC client yet, go to
http://www.chessclub.com and set yourself up. It's free.
To follow the all of the games of the match, use the "follow" command
in your Main Console Window on ICC
(http://www.chessclub.com/help/follow) _before_ the match begins, or
the "observe" command (http://www.chessclub.com/help/observe) to just
watch a single game of the match.
Feel free to kibitz during the match and/or analyze with or without the
help of computers/databases/books. The players will *NOT* see your
comments. Match Arbiter, Vince Hart, has offered to give some running
commentary on ICC on the players during the match. To chat during the
match, see:
http://www.chessclub.com/helpcenter/b2primer/iccintropg4.html
The ICC login which is being used for the match is: GRUDGE05
The games in the match start at:
10:00AM CDT (Central Daylight Time)
1:00PM CDT
4:00PM CDT (only if necessary)
7:00PM CDT (only if necessary)
To get GMT/UTC, just add 5 hours to these times.
Here is a recap of the match terms.
FIRST ANNUAL RGCP GRUDGE MATCH:
Sloan vs. Brock in Chicago, draw odds to Sloan
MATCH TERMS (ver. 6):
Venue: Offices of William H. Brock, Ltd.
(address found here:
http://www.billbrock.net/contact.html)
Playing room: Bill Brock's 4th floor conference room
Date: June 26, 2005
Match Schedule: Round 1: 10 a.m. CDT
Round 2: 1 p.m. CDT
Round 3: 4 p.m. CDT (if necessary)
Round 4: 7 p.m. CDT (if necessary)
ICC Simulcast: Follow the match on ICC. The ICC login
being used for the match: GRUDGE05
Prize Fund: $1000, Winner takes all
Special Prize: A special prize is being awarded by
Tyrone Slothrop for the single best
game of the match (procedure for
determining this will be decided by
the arbiter and players)
Match Arbiter: Vince Hart, Club Tournament Director
Match Conditions: Winner is the first person to
2.0 (if Sloan) or 2.5 (if Brock)
Time Controls: G/75 (+ 5" Bronstein)
Match Rules: USCF's Official Rules of Chess,
5th edition
Rules of Note: 1. NO CELLPHONES MAY BE TURNED ON DURING
THE MATCH! (SAM SLOAN: TAKE NOTE!)
2. No baby in playing room
3. Baby at venue,outside of playing
room, only if accompanied by another
adult person (e.g., babysitter)
4. The players may leave the playing
room during a game (e.g., to go to
the restroom) only as provided for
by the Match Arbiter
5. No defenestrations of players or
or by players (OK - that was a joke)
Other: 1. Sam Sloan will be provided $350 as
a travel allowance to help defer
the cost of his travel and
accommodations
2. An small honorarium may be supplied
to the arbiter (details to be worked
out)
3. Arbiter would be holder of the $1000
prize fund and would handle the
disbursement thereof
4. Coffee/water to be supplied by Bill
Brock
5. Game scores to be posted to RGCP
6. There may be one or two spectators to
the live event
7. One spectator or the match arbiter
would enter the moves as played into
ICC
8. The bookcase of chess books will be
removed from the playing room during
this event
9. If Bill Brock wins, he has pledged
that all prize money will go directly
to charity:
50% to National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children http://www.ncmec.org/
50% to Illinois Chess Association
http://www.ilchess.org/
10. If it doesn't bother the players, the
Match Arbiter has offered to give some
running commentary on the players.
As RGCP is something like the WWWF of the chess world, we should also
have some apropos pre-match quotes. The players have obliged!
"My primary goal--heretofore unstated, but evident to all but the
brain-damaged--is to minimize the lies that Sam Sloan and Larry Parr
spread during this election campaign. To delay the match would defeat
that purpose. That Sam Sloan happens to be a kiddie f*cker is
convenient to my purpose." - Bill Brock (referring to this match), June
19, 2005
"I plan to beat the f*cking sh*t at chess out of this *sshole Bill
Brock, so please have your money ready." - Sam Sloan, June 23, 2005
[Eliding of the "earthiest" letters of these quotes was done by this
poster]
So RGCP wallflowers, kickback in your easy chair with a six-pack of
brewsky because caissic "pig-wrestling" is coming to Chicago and the
ICC!
T.S.
Angelo DePalma
It's Sunday morning and ICC has not announced this grudge match yet.
Also, in your instructions you don't mention whom we should "follow" or
"observe."
adp
"RGCP Grudge Match" <rgcpgru...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1119759242....@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
RGCP Grudge Match
privately simulcast on ICC by the Arbiter of the match, Vince Hart. As
such, it is unlikely that ICC will officially announce it.
It will happen nonetheless, in about 61 minutes. (1st round starts at
10:00AM Central Daylight Time in Chicago.)
"follow" or "observe" the ICC login: GRUDGE05
T.S.
Shock...@aol.com
that if he wins it will somehow erase all the arguments he's lost.
Brock too seems to imagine that Sloan and Parr have some credibility
that he can take away from them. They're both wrong.
Tyrone Slothrop
loses.
That is the point.
(Slothrop, who is shocked he has to explain this to someone on a
*C*H*E*S*S* newsgroup!)
RGCP Grudge Match
started about 14 minutes ago.
On ICC, do a:
"follow GRUDGE05"
or
"observe GRUDGE05"
Angelo DePalma
Looks like Sam lost Game 1 but I can't tell for sure. He's a piece down for
a pawn, with a bad position.
"RGCP Grudge Match" <rgcpgru...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1119799428.2...@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
Shock...@aol.com
What is the point in any chess game? Someone wins. Someone else
loses.
>>
Unless the game is a draw (Shocked that he has to explain this to
someone on a C*H*E*S*S* newsgroup!)
>>
That is the point.
(Slothrop, who is shocked he has to explain this to someone on a
*C*H*E*S*S* newsgroup!)
>>
Well, the question, since you seem to have misunderstood it, was not
what the point of a chess game was, it was what the point of a
*g*r*u*d*g*e match is. (Shocked I have to explain this twice too). What
does it settle? As I said (and you seem to have missed), Sloan is only
playing because he imagines that a victory here will wipe out all the
arguments he's lost. Brock imagines that Sloan has got some credibility
that can be taken away from him. They're both wrong.
Sloan is playing for free. Other people put up the stakes and his
travel fare. He might win something but he risks nothing. Now if the
stakes were that if he lost he'd had to stay off Usenet for a month,
that might be worth something.