Iowa State Chess Association

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Scholarship amount

• Two scholarships - $150 each

 

Eligibility Requirements

• Must be between a Junior in High School up to a Junior in college as of September 1st, 2022

  • This applies to both traditional and non-traditional students

• US Chess Rating of at least 1500

• Have played in at least 1 Iowa event in the last calendar year

 

Entry Requirements

• The judges would like to see your most Challenging tournament chess game

  • “Challenging” could be a win, loss, or a draw

  • “Challenging” could also be tournament circumstance or however you define ‘challenging’

• Provide an annotated game (winning scholarships will be featured in the En Passant)

  • Include diagrams and sub variations where applicable

  • Include your lessons learned and your growth as a chess player from that game/tournament

  • Grammar, spelling, and ease of understanding will factor into the scoring

  • Do not forget your name, grade, graduation year, and email address when submitting

 

Accepted Formats

• Word Document or PDF file (.DOC, .DOCX, .PDF)

• Chessbase game (.CBV)

• Portable Game Notation with annotations (.PGN)

• Forsyth-Edwards Notation file formats will NOT be accepted (.FEN)

 

Deadline

• Deadline date: December 31st, 2022 11:59pm

• Please submit your annotated game to the En Passant Editor:

  • Cassidy Noble – noblecass@gmail.com

• Please include “Iowa Chess Scholarship – YOUR NAME” in the header of the email

• Late entries will not be accepted

 

Winner

• The winners will be contacted prior to the 2023 IASCA Annual Meeting

• The scholarships will be delivered to the winners at the IASCA Annual Meeting

• Winning Scholarships will be entered in the July 2023 edition of the En Passant