Attached is the schedule for chess tournaments during January through March 2001. The Chess Team practice is slightly more rigorous than chess club. It is not so much a social time as it is a practice just like practice for Scholastic Bowl, Gamma Phi Circus, the Allied Arts Production or a sports team. There is more advanced instruction and a little less game playing. A one year subscription to Chess Mates bi-monthly magazine Entry to any or all of the seven local tournaments and entry fee only to the state and national tournaments.
Scholarships are available.
That your child will try to participate in at least three tournaments That you arrive promptly for tournaments That you notify Dan Irvin or Gracie Ayers for tournaments you ve registered for but cannot make. Lastly, all children need to be in the care of an adult during tournaments. This is a rule of the Central Illinois Scholastic Chess League. If a parent is unable to attend with the child, one of the other parents of the team must be designated as being responsible for that child. There are up to 400 children at any one tournament and it s impossible for tournament organizers and coaches to supervise all of them.