# Dopers 2005! Chess: Royal Rumble! Doper Chess Fest!!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 26, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061 "2005-02-26T22:58:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2005, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/1 "2005-02-26T22:58:14Z")
Okay, so I’ve seen a few threads dedicated to individual chess matches, and I’ve seen a great many posts around various fora where people talk about their chess skills.
So, I figured, for fun and bragging rights, we should set up a single elimination tournament. I’m not great at chess myself, and I estimate that I’d be knocked out somewhere around the beginning, but I think it’d be great fun for everybody.
We could pair people off, have them play games on yahoo and email the game history to me so I can post it to this thread, or just post the results directly.
So come on, who’s with me?
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### Author:  [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/2 "2005-02-27T02:12:31Z")
You can count me in.
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### Author:  [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/3 "2005-02-27T02:23:19Z")
I’m in.
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### Author:  [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/4 "2005-02-27T02:30:24Z")
Yeah I’ll do it.
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### Author:  [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/5 "2005-02-27T02:46:53Z")
Excellent!
That makes four people, let’s see if we can get more!
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/6 "2005-02-27T03:36:26Z")
I’ve not played in five or more years and was never good to begin with but I’ll be up for it.
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### Author:  [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/7 "2005-02-27T03:39:24Z")
I’m in.
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### Author:  [@RayMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RayMan)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/8 "2005-02-27T06:22:52Z")
I’d love to play. But why a single elimination tournament? Why not have a round robin (if there are few enough players) or a Swiss tournament? That could easily be arranged, with or without USCF or FIDE ratings.
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### Author:  [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/9 "2005-02-27T09:33:45Z")
Can you please elaborate on that? I’m not familiar with those terms.
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### Author:  [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/10 "2005-02-27T13:29:50Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#):
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> Can you please elaborate on that? I’m not familiar with those terms.
This link has good explanations of most of the terms.
[http://www.chessctr.org/primer.htm](http://www.chessctr.org/primer.htm)
[FIDE](http://www.fide.com/default.asp?curpage=1&x=0.1016352) is the International organization for chess players. USCF and FIDE both issue ratings for chess players.
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### Author:  [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/11 "2005-02-27T20:04:55Z")
Hrm, well, we have seven people. This is a pretty piss-poor tournament. Anybody know anybody else they can harass, politely, to get them to join? Anybody have the **lib** signal set up and ready to go?
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### Author:  [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/12 "2005-02-27T20:10:32Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#):
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> Hrm, well, we have seven people. This is a pretty piss-poor tournament. Anybody know anybody else they can harass, politely, to get them to join? Anybody have the **lib** signal set up and ready to go?
I suggest we give it a couple of days. Some people (usually me, for instance) are not around on the weekend.
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### Author:  [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/13 "2005-02-27T20:10:35Z")
I suppose I’ll play, haven’t played seriously for a while though
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### Author:  [@Dragoness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragoness)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/14 "2005-02-27T22:53:34Z")
Could I get penciled in under “to be eliminated first round,” please?
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### Author:  [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/15 "2005-02-28T00:35:14Z")
I’m in, depending on how we go about playing the games.
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/16 "2005-02-28T02:29:16Z")
I’ll play (but I’m on GMT).
Would it be more interesting to play on SDMB threads, so people could watch?
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### Author:  [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/17 "2005-02-28T04:15:37Z")
Yeah, I like that idea. It’s simple.
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### Author:  [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/18 "2005-02-28T06:25:21Z")
> [@glee](#):
>
> I’ll play (but I’m on GMT).
>
> Would it be more interesting to play on SDMB threads, so people could watch?
That seems like it would take too long plus I doubt the mods would look kindly on 10 chess games running at one time. Perhaps the two players can schedule a time so that if people want to watch they can.
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### Author:  [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/19 "2005-02-28T07:16:08Z")
I’m in, although I’m not particularly good.
Perhaps we can have the games played on Yahoo (or elsewhere) for the first rounds, and only have the final games played on the SDMB? It would be neat to watch a championship match on the board.
I think round-robin or somesuch is probably better than single elimination, but it doesn’t really matter.
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### Author:  [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2005, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-2005-chess-royal-rumble-doper-chess-fest/292061/20 "2005-02-28T10:20:28Z")
I’m in too…
Hey BlackKnight,are you from F1forums? 😃 Cos we have a BlackKnight there too!
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