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International Scholastic Chess Convention

January 6 - 15, 2008

Chicago

The vision of the initiative is to establish long-term relationships between the young people around the globe by using chess as the vehicle by which to promote mutual understanding of shared problems. In addition, we expect these relationships to add to the students’ general educational knowledge as well as helping the participants to foster a better understanding of their world.

The International Scholastic Chess Convention

    discussion will be during the following sections:    

    1.   Chess at Schools

    2.  Chess in Education

     3.  Chess and Technology

     4.  Chess for Peace        

The Convention’s special guests are invited to be: 

·    World Chess Champion GM Anatoly Karpov

·    World Chess Champion GM Susan Polgar

 

Each participated chess club will be given an opportunity to present at any one of the Convention’s sessions for 15 minutes. In addition, the Convention will build a special web site to link all the participants around the World for    future communications and chess activities

International Scholastic

Chess Tournament

The 1st FIDE-rated Open Scholastic chess tournament in the US!

 

9 sections:

K – 12 FIDE;  K – 12;  K - 12 Under 1200; K – 8; K - 8 Under 1000; K – 5; K - 5 Under 900; K – 3; K - 3 Under 800

 

Prizes: Trophies for at least top 25 players and teams in each section.

 

Main Event rounds:
Friday:         7:00 pm
Saturday:     1:00 pm; 4:00 pm; 7:00 pm
Sunday:       1:00 pm & 4:00 pm

Monday:      10:00 am

 

Tournament Registration