Convenient Information for OSCO Affiliate Club Members
Visit the Schedule of Upcoming
Tournaments and Events often and pass along to your members the fliers
linked from the page. Please submit anything you may have for the schedule at
the earliest possible opportunity to help avoid conflicts. Conducting an
interscholastic chess tournament can be a nice club fundraiser.
Scholastic Tournament Final Standings
Charts are usually posted within a few days of Oklahoma scholastic
tournaments.
Make sure your scholastic club is on the Chess Clubs
page, to better network with other clubs and be more visible to potential new
members.
Established scholastic clubs may also find useful information in the
Starting A Chess Club section of this
website, including:
Recommended chess books, software and videos
where to get the best deals on chess club supplies on the
Budget page,
training materials information,
ideas for operating and
funding your club.
Hosting an interscholastic tournament
is an excellent chess club fundraiser.
To check out USCF Ratings, click
HERE.
Order a USCF Scholastic chess club
affiliate information packet.
Simply request one from
USCF Club Development
931-787-1234, ext. 128. This includes a hard copy of
A
Guide to Scholastic Chess, the USCF Catalog, plus several other very helpful publications.
In the packet you'll receive information about several U.S. Chess Trust
programs, including
Chess for Youth. Chess for Youth is a program that donates up to 5 free
chess sets to qualifying schools around the county. It is also known as “Kolty
Chess for Youth,” named for its famous founder, George Koltanowski.
US Chess Trust's "Chess for Youth" Free USCF Membership Program for up to 10
students in the Federal School Lunch Program.
For more info about this program, also click
HERE.
First send out a
letter to parents regarding Free USCF
Scholastic Membership Program (in MS Word format). After receiving the
parent requests, a school official will submit the
letter to USCF regarding Free
USCF Scholastic Memberships from the Chess for Youth Program (sample letter
in MS Word
format with information at quotes to be edited). With the letter, also submit
the
Chess-for-Youth Application Form. Please start this process as
early as possible, because it can take a month or more to receive the vouchers.
Email admin@okschess.org for additional
contact info for this program to help expedite things. USCF memberships can be submitted and paid on-line by USCF
Affiliate Clubs and Tournament Directors. There is a $2
affiliate discount
for most memberships processed in this manner at the
USCF
TD/Affiliates Area. This discount is also passed along for USCF
registrations at OSCO Grand Prix tournaments.
The OCA's
interactive tournament games page with many scholastic games may be very interesting for you and
your members. Check it out!!!
The Benefits of Chess can
be a big help when you're trying to recruit the support of your school, parents
or funding sources.
The
Scholastic Chess Pyramid of Success
may help you and your club members understand what to expect as their chess
involvement progresses.
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