Welcome

New players
and
Players with lost ID numbers

New players who've never played in an SCA chess tournament need to provide grade, school, and contact information. We use this information to run scholastic tournaments and to send newsletter announcements twice a year.

Returning players who've lost their ID numbers need to provide the same information. We use this information to locate and re-assign your SCA ID number.

Privacy policy: We don't give out your information to anybody, and we send only legitimate SCA information to you at the e-mail you provide. We're into chess, not spam, and that's that.

Please copy the form at the bottom of this page to an email and fill in the requested information. Send the email to Lorene@SchoolChess.org.

Or you may mail the form and a check payable to the "School Chess Asscociaton" to:

School Chess Association
5901 Laurel Ave Apt 134
Golden Valley MN 55416-1070
For an over-the-board (not online) tournament:
Postmark your check by at least 4 days before the tournament (Tuesday before a Sat. tournament). After that time, don't mail, but bring the payment to the tournament.

For an online (virtual) tournament:
Postmark your check by at least 5 days before the tournament (Mon. before a Sat. tournament). If this isn't possible, pay the registration fee to Lorene@SchoolChess.org via PayPal.

The base fee for the SCA Statewide Primary/Elementary Championship tournament is $62.00.
The base fee for all other tournaments $26.00.
The new player fee for the SCA ID card is $2.00.
Include your check for the base fee + $2.00 ($28 or $64) payable to the "School Chess Association".
You may take the $1.00 sibling discount if your brother or sister has already registered for this tournament. The first player from a family may not take the discount.
Registering online without your SCA ID number will incur a $2.00 fee.
Registering at the door without the physical ID card will incur a $2.00 fee.
The replacement ID card fee is 2.00 bucks.
Registering at the door will incur an additional late fee of $5.00.
Registering for the Statewide Primary, Elementary, Middle Championship after 2024-04-18 00:00:00 will incur an additional late fee of $10.00.

Adults:
Some sections of some tournaments allow adults (graduated from 12th grade or more than
18 years old) to play. Adults do not receive an SCA ID number and thus are not charged
the $2 SCA ID card fee.

Download New Player Form