National Chess Day - 2013

[MichaelAtkins]

National Chess Day motion just passed for 2013. We did it earlier this year to give organizers a full two months to make plans prior to the June 10 deadline for Aug/Sept TLAs for Chess Life:

Moved that this year’s National Chess Day, Saturday Oct 12th, be promoted in Chess Life and CL Online
by a program of free TLAs for tournaments with National Chess Day in the title and free rating fees as established in a recent motion. National Chess Day 2013 will be Saturday, October 12th. In order to promote National Chess Day as a day for special activities and promotion of chess throughout the country, the following is proposed:

Any Rated Beginner Open that includes “National Chess Day” in its TLA title gets both a free TLA and free rating fees.
Any 1-day event for Oct 12 which has “National Chess Day” in its TLA title gets a free TLA
Any 2-3 day event held over a period which encompasses Oct 12-13, which has “National Chess Day” in its TLA title, will get free TLA and free rating fees

For organizers/affiliates, In the TLA, be sure to mention National Chess Day in the title and that it actually happens on Saturday Oct 12, and then expect to receive an e-mail from the office explaining how to get the free rating fee.

Organizers are encouraged to submit articles and photographs for publication for Chess Life Magazine and Chess Life Online.

Affiliates are encouraged to plan a tournament or an event of any kind in order to promote chess on National Chess Day.

The USCF will send out at least one e-mail blast to all TDs and Affiliates before April 22 to enable organizers to have 6 weeks to plan events before the June 10 TLA deadline for getting Chess Life TLA’s in August and September

Good organizing!,

Mike A

[ChessHead1]

Has the date for National Chess Day 2014 been determined yet? If not, it would be helpful to identify the date and publicize it.

Many organizers are trying to partner with local organizations for events or facilities, so long-range planning would be helpful.

The “Plan Ahead Calendar” has published dates through December 2016, so why can’t we firm up and publicize dates for National Chess Day that far out?

[MichaelAtkins]

@ChessHead1

Has the date for National Chess Day 2014 been determined yet? If not, it would be helpful to identify the date and publicize it.

Many organizers are trying to partner with local organizations for events or facilities, so long-range planning would be helpful.

The “Plan Ahead Calendar” has published dates through December 2016, so why can’t we firm up and publicize dates for National Chess Day that far out?

There was a motion last year which set the second Saturday in October as the standard day. That would be Saturday, Oct 11, 2014. An additional revised motion was just passed correcting that one day NCD tournaments on Sat Oct 12 have also been given free rating fees.

Mike

[ChessHead1]

@MichaelAtkins

There was a motion last year which set the second Saturday in October as the standard day. That would be Saturday, Oct 11, 2014. An additional revised motion was just passed correcting that one day NCD tournaments on Sat Oct 12 have also been given free rating fees.

Thanks Mike, that’s great news! Sorry, I wasn’t aware.

Suggestion, maybe someone could post the National Chaess Day dates on the Long Range Calendar? It could just say “National Chess Day (many local events)” or something to that effect.

[MichaelAtkins]

@ChessHead1

@MichaelAtkins

There was a motion last year which set the second Saturday in October as the standard day. That would be Saturday, Oct 11, 2014. An additional revised motion was just passed correcting that one day NCD tournaments on Sat Oct 12 have also been given free rating fees.

Thanks Mike, that’s great news! Sorry, I wasn’t aware.

Suggestion, maybe someone could post the National Chaess Day dates on the Long Range Calendar? It could just say “National Chess Day (many local events)” or something to that effect.

Nice idea, I’ll look into that.

Thanks,
Mike