The Free Progressive Party (from Dorvik) welcomes chess players from all around Terra to compete for the World Chess Championship.
Entry
Tournament entry is open to all citizens of Terra. Each entrant must be sponsored by a political party, and each party may only sponsor one entrant.
All participants must have an account on Chess.com. If you do not already have an account, create one for free! This is where the matches will be played.
Format
The World Chess Champion will be crowned every ten years (20 rl days). When the tournament concludes, the winner is said to be the champion of that decade.
The format will be determined by the number of entrants. If there is a large entry pool, players will be grouped based on their TerraRating (see below). After group play, top seeds will advance to a single-elimination tournament where they will compete for the championship.
Players have great latitude in determining the outcome of their matches. Before each match, the two players will decide on the type of game (live, online over the course of days, a coin toss, other mechanisms for determining a winner in some way) and the time at which the match will take place. Due to the probable prolonging of games due to time-zone conflicts, a time limit will be determined before each match. Players will be expected to either complete their match or determine the outcome in some other fashion before the time limit is reached. Both players should report the outcome on this thread at the conclusion of each match.
TerraRating
All first-time participants will be given an initial TerraRating of 1000. This rating will change based on a simplistic formula (very close to the USCF provisional rating system, for those who care to know). A participant's TerraRating will determine his or her seed in tournaments, and also exist as a source of pride (or humility).