Scooter Chess Run anyone?

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:34 pm

So we got WAY OT on another thread and I thought to start a new one...

Scooter Chess Run ala Biker Poker Run.

ten teams/5 players each (so there's a tiebreaker vote in case of dissention). 45 mins per team. 100 miles ish or so for the Run.

Raise awareness of SCOOTERISTS and money for charities...hey! maybe send some to Alix for her ride...

Multiple cities participating on the same day...

Any takers?

schlagle · Post by **schlagle** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:40 pm

I'd be interested once we figure out if it's actually feasible. Lot's of variables in chess.

So so far it's a team sport. Does that mean the team decides all 5 moves or are individuals responsible for their own logic/move?

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:48 pm

team members explain 'their' respective moves of choice and hold vote if not agreeable. team makes moves as team, KWIM?

OR

five boards at each station team v. team

I don't know...have to think on that

I think it would be feasible...not kid's play but my stepson is in a chess club at school and they do round robin tourneys all the time...

UXO · Post by **UXO** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:50 pm

Yes, what a marvelous idea! I'm in NY.

Post by **ericalm** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:33 pm

How does this work? Anyone have a link for someone too lazy to Google it right now?

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:36 pm

Working on it...

We'd have to set up a website to handle registration and donations...

each city would need a captain/lead organizer person to handle local end of the Run, determine best scooter route

Need to get sponsoring locations (restaurants/scootershops/chess clubs!/etc)

so much to think about in details

schlagle · Post by **schlagle** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:34 pm

ericalm wrote:How does this work? Anyone have a link for someone too lazy to Google it right now?

It's being invented right before your eyes. At least I think it is. I've never heard of it before.

StacyB · Post by **StacyB** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:10 pm

I don't know how to play chess... but.... I DO know how to ride my scooter... I'm in!!! (not sure how scootering is involved in this... but I'm sure someone will let me know)...

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:50 am

Okay, spoke to my kid's chess club sponsor about round robins...here's what my mad scientist thinking came up with:

Local and national sponsors. Preferably Genuine dealers, scooter shops. MSF schools and chess clubs. Ideally an eatery or two. Five stations/locations. At least twenty cities needed to make viable for sponsors/donors.

50 to 100 mile run, depending on size of your city, among other factors.

Ten teams, five players each. $150/team. Five board setup per station. Start at same point, staggered times (drawing to determine start times). Two teams kick off competing mano a mano. One hour max per station/per team. First two teams take off for next station, next two teams step in (similar to continuous chess game setups seen) play same boards. Station monitors radio/text ahead set up of boards. And so on and so on.

To keep things mixed up, drawings held while first two teams playing to determine placement of next two teams (players).

All teams wait at final point (*whispered* hints and razzing allowed for maximum competition and amusement) till completion of game.

For example: (under perfect conditions/planets in alignment/Mars not in retrograde/zombies not attacking our city...)
DFW

Vespa FW > random chess club > Moxie Scooters > restaurant > Vespa Dallas

Teams arrive and check in. (insert T-shirt sponsor) Two teams play first round. Fans *whispered* hints allowed. While two teams playing, drawing held to determine placement of next two teams. (insert Coffee/doughnut sponsor) First two teams head out, monitor calls ahead to give board placement to next station. (insert Mobile communications sponsor) 2nd two teams step in and play off 1st two teams' boards. Etcetera, etcetera, ad nauseum.

Fans of teams ride along with each team.

Since I know Genuine dealer locations, this route would prolly mainline on 30, spinning off in points heretofore unknown for chess club and restaurant locations.

All in all, I estimate an 8 hour day consisting of at least three hours ride time.

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:22 pm

I just re-read my post. Wow. I *AM* a geek, aren't I?

schlagle · Post by **schlagle** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:24 pm

Wow, you came up with that in one day?!? There's this thing, perhaps you've heard of it, called sleep. I hear it's all the rage

Seriously, good work. It's going to take me a couple cups of coffee to digest all of that...

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:27 pm

So I got a call from my son's chess club sponsor last night...

He said if it was something we were serious about, his aduly chess club would gladly sponsor something and provide a locale to play.

Seriously?

I think this could turn into something.

KRUSTYburger · Post by **KRUSTYburger** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:26 pm

Okay, I like chess... and scooters... I just don't understand this at all

.

Can someone please make a diagram? Diagrams are my friends...

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:30 pm

KRUSTYburger wrote:Okay, I like chess... and scooters... I just don't understand this at all .

Can someone please make a diagram? Diagrams are my friends...

You know how MC's have Charity Poker Runs? Where they travel from site to site playing one hand of poker at each site or something like that?

Well this would be similar, except on a national scale (each city has it's own Run), riding scooters and playing an hour's worth of chess at each site.

Clear as mud, yet?

KRUSTYburger · Post by **KRUSTYburger** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:19 pm

yeah I guess... So we just ride and then play regular chess?

It's not like the US is a giant chess board and we (and our scooters) are the pieces?! That would be so hardcore. Almost impossible and some moves would take days to make and everyone involved would have to be completely out of their mind, but hardcore nonetheless... So if you win do you just keep going and going to each city like a contest, or do you just play one game and that's it?

I think I prefer poker.

schlagle · Post by **schlagle** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:26 pm

I'm just trying to get my mind around some of this...

what happens if there is checkmate in 6 moves? All ten people just head to the final destination? And what about time controls at the final destination? I love chess but a spectator sport it ain't

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:26 pm

KRUSTYburger wrote:yeah I guess... So we just ride and then play regular chess?

Yep. Two teams of five at a time (10 players) and their fans.

KRUSTYburger wrote:It's not like the US is a giant chess board and we (and our scooters) are the pieces?! That would be so hardcore. Almost impossible and some moves would take days to make and everyone involved would have to be completely out of their mind, but hardcore nonetheless...

THAT is a FABULOUS idea! Not feasible but OMG! THAT would be awesome!

KRUSTYburger wrote: So if you win do you just keep going and going to each city like a contest, or do you just play one game and that's it?

Nope, each set of teams plays the board for an hour. then the next two teams step in and play off the same boards, so on and so forth. A round robin chess game.

KRUSTYburger wrote:I think I prefer poker.

I'm thinking scooterists are cerebral...

And I don't know how to play poker.

Geek Vader scoots off into the sunset, laughing gleefully at the caged masses!