Hi all,
How do you sign up as a TD for a club? I can’t seem to find the web-form or instructions how to do this. I just signed up my university club as a USCF affiliate, and need to access the MSA area to run rated tournaments in the club. Any advice would be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Gregory Alexander
Mike Nolan would be better to answer this, but I’ll try (somebody who has done this more recently than a couple years ago may correct any errors).
You set the club up in the TD/Affiliate area with a user ID and password. One of the places you should be able to find this is at the top of this page. There may be some security issues that will require dealing with the office. If you have an e-mail address already attached to your club then you shouldn’t need office intervention.
You set the TD up in the TD/Affiliate area with a different user ID and password. As with setting up the club, if you have an e-mail address already attached to your USCF ID then you shouldn’t need office intervention.
Using the club’s ID you go into the TD/Affiliate area and authorize the USCF ID numbers of TDs that can submit on-line for the affiliate. This is also where you can state who the officers of the club are, where and when the club meets, etc.
Using your TD ID you do your tournament upload (use the correct affiliate number) and resolve any errors in the report. When doing the final submission for rating select the affilate ID that authorized you (which needs to match the affiliate ID used in the tournament upload).
Do you mean “How do you apply to be a club TD?” or “How does an affiliate add a TD to the list of TDs who are allowed to direct for it?”?
The former I can’t answer off the top of my head. For the latter, just log into the TD/Affiliate section as the affiliate and click on the “Update Authorized TDs” link. It’s pretty straightforward from there.
Alex Relyea
If you need a form to become a USCF Club TD: uschess.org/about/forms/CERTIFIEDTDFORM.pdf
If you want more info about how to do stuff (like run a tournament, etc) you can scroll down the page at:
beta.uschess.org/frontend/section_285.php
Tim
Thank-you gentlemen.
That is the form that I am looking for. Thanks Tim!
Take care,
Gregory
FYI
It is really difficult to get to find the USCF’s Official Rules of Chess in the USCF store. If you search using ‘USCF’s Official Rules of Chess’, you won’t see it, same with ‘rule’, ‘rule book’, etc. To make matters worse, it is also not found in the ‘tournament supplies’, or ‘Schools, clubs, affiliates’ categories. The only way I found it was on Amazon, or typing in just ‘rulebook’ in the USCF shop search engine.
Anyway, I hope that someone can make it easier to find.
Thanks for your help!
Gregory
Gregory,
Sometimes the local bookstores carry the rulebook.
Jon
Thanks Jon,
That will speed things up and save me the shipping cost.
Take care Jon!
Gregory
I’m not sure why you had a problem. When I searched for “Official Rules of Chess” (exact phrase), it came up immediately. It’s cheaper on Amazon, though (at least if your order is over $25).
I found my copy on Ebay. It was a former library book, and much cheaper than retail.
Was that the current (5th) edition or some previous edition?
I highly recommend any TD or affiliate looking to submit games online read the material on the TD/Affiliate Support Area home page, particularly the ‘getting started’ and ‘Frequent Questions’ pages.
It was the 5th edition. I made sure.