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ok. is it just uscf.com?
its uschess.org.
im a member of uscf
Jan 28, 2013
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livluvrok wrote:
ok. is it just uscf.com?
It would have been just as fast to type uscf.com into a search engine, faster actually than waiting for an answer here
this is the link Google SA shows on the 1st page of results
http://www.uschess.org/images/splash-homepage/splash.php
You need to be in the USCF just to play at your local club?
livluvrok wrote:
I have just recently gotten into chess, and I'm looking to join some otb chess tournaments at my local chess club, but when I went they said I needed to have a USCF account or register or whatever. How can I do this?
what part of the USA do u live in?
https://secure2.uschess.org/webstore/member.php is the direct link to the membership purchase store. If your a youth (I recall you are in another thread, but could be wrong!) you can get a yearly membership for $33/year. This includes a hard copy of the Chess Life magazine. Personally I like having a hard copy of the magazine, but if an online access to it is fine with you then save yourself a few more bucks and forego the hard copy for $26/year. If you have more money to toss around at once then purchasing a 3 year membership could save you even more ($88 or $67 depending if you go with hard copy of Chess Life or not). Have fun! :)
I wonder if a Life Membership ($1500) is worthwhile. You'd recoup the costs just from the Chess Life magazines over the years if nothing else and especially at a younger age it'd save a bundle over the years, too. I'm considering getting one in the next few years possibly.
Back when I joined the USCF I went to a tournament thinking, OK, now I can play in a tournament. Not so fast. In order to play I also had to join my state organization, which was an additional cost and for which they offered nothing in return except some crappy pamphlet they published every so often glorifying the people who published it. I complained to the USCF because the agreement seemed to say, at that time, that membership allowed you to play in any USCF sanctioned tournament. Not so, not so.
Burke wrote:
Back when I joined the USCF I went to a tournament thinking, OK, now I can play in a tournament. Not so fast. In order to play I also had to join my state organization, which was an additional cost and for which they offered nothing in return except some crappy pamphlet they published every so often glorifying the people who published it. I complained to the USCF because the agreement seemed to say, at that time, that membership allowed you to play in any USCF sanctioned tournament. Not so, not so.
Odd. I'm not part of my state chess association and I've played in multiple USCF sanctioned tournaments without a problem.
KingsEye wrote:
I wonder if a Life Membership ($1500) is worthwhile. You'd recoup the costs just from the Chess Life magazines over the years if nothing else and especially at a younger age it'd save a bundle over the years, too. I'm considering getting one in the next few years possibly.
I paid for a life membership about 20 years ago and it is worth it knowing i will never have to pay dues again.
KingsEye wrote:
Burke wrote:
Back when I joined the USCF I went to a tournament thinking, OK, now I can play in a tournament. Not so fast. In order to play I also had to join my state organization, which was an additional cost and for which they offered nothing in return except some crappy pamphlet they published every so often glorifying the people who published it. I complained to the USCF because the agreement seemed to say, at that time, that membership allowed you to play in any USCF sanctioned tournament. Not so, not so.
Odd. I'm not part of my state chess association and I've played in multiple USCF sanctioned tournaments without a problem.
I assume every state may be different. Mine gets away with it, or at least, used to. Buyer beware because the USCF won't do anything about it.
I'm thinking of joining myself but am afraid I won't do any good =(
ScorpionPackAttack wrote:
I'm thinking of joining myself but am afraid I won't do any good =(
I think you'd do fine. Everyone has to start off somewhere! :)
Conflagration_Planet wrote:
You need to be in the USCF just to play at your local club?
No, but I have to join USCF if I want to compete in the local tourneys every Saturday.
KingsEye wrote:
I wonder if a Life Membership ($1500) is worthwhile. You'd recoup the costs just from the Chess Life magazines over the years if nothing else and especially at a younger age it'd save a bundle over the years, too. I'm considering getting one in the next few years possibly.
Good GOD! If it's usually only $35 a year, you're paying for over 42 years. I wouldn't do it.
yeah, its a waste of money
fianchetto123 wrote:
yeah, its a waste of money
Big time. 
Conflagration_Planet wrote:
KingsEye wrote:
I wonder if a Life Membership ($1500) is worthwhile. You'd recoup the costs just from the Chess Life magazines over the years if nothing else and especially at a younger age it'd save a bundle over the years, too. I'm considering getting one in the next few years possibly.
Good GOD! If it's usually only $35 a year, you're paying for over 42 years. I wouldn't do it.
Its $46/year for me, for now. They could decide to raise their rates again like they did before on an almost yearly basis recently. For example just in 2009 the rate was $34/year, and it was $29/year in 2008! So getting a Life membership for $1500 means I'd have a "lock in" rate of $46/year for about 33 years, and after that, I get it free. When considering all that, buying a Life membership doesn't seem like a bad idea to me, especially if your a youth (they get cheaper rates though so you'd have to add more years to the total before you'd be getting the membership "free"). Every increase they make for membership, even a few dollars, adds up over the years, and it'd be an expense I wouldn't have to worry about. However there is the issue of coming up with $1,500 at once... :p
I have just recently gotten into chess, and I'm looking to join some otb chess tournaments at my local chess club, but when I went they said I needed to have a USCF account or register or whatever. How can I do this?