Bidding for ICA-Sanctioned State Tournaments
The Illinois Chess Association (“ICA”) is the recognized state affiliate of the United States Chess Federation (“USCF”) for the State of Illinois. ICA is an Illinois corporation with not-for-profit status under Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) §501(c)3. As the USCF state affiliate, ICA is responsible for conferring chess titles for the state of Illinois under USCF auspices.
Although the ICA is responsible for conferring USCF titles in Illinois and retains the right to organize a championship tournament itself, it may request and encourage other organizers to submit bids for state titled events. ICA may also confer a title based on an event run by another entity. For example, ICA has in the past recognized the title awarded by IHSA for the high school team title.
See below to access the general bidding guidelines, bidder requirements, and bidding deadlines for a particular event.
ICA Guidelines for Bidders
These are ICA’s final tournament bidding guidelines. These guidelines will be used for all future tournament bids except for the 2010 Illinois All Grades. Also available below are the two bid forms in Microsoft Word format.
ICA Bid Committee
The ICA Bid Committee's task is to gather and review tournament bids and recommend a chosen bidder for ICA State Sanctioned Championship events to the ICA Board. Members of the ICA Bid Committee include:
Garrett Scott (Bid Committee Chair) was born on D-day (June 6, 1944) and has lived all but two years in central Illinois. He received a BA and a Masters from Illinois State University in Speech and Language Pathology, and taught in Bloomington public schools for 38 years until his retirement in 2004. He served on the Normal Town Council for 23 years. Scouting was a big part of Garrett’s life. He is an Eagle Scout and a brotherhood member of Order of the Arrow. He has also been active in church life on what he calls “the progressive end of the spectrum.” His chess accomplishments are vast. He organized the Twin City (Bloomington-Normal) Chess Club in February of 1967, serving as president until 1976. He later sponsored the Oakland Elementary School chess club. He has coached more than a dozen state championship teams at the primary, elementary, junior high, and high school levels. He organized six U.S. Junior Championships, two U.S. Women’s Championships, two U.S. Junior Opens, and three other U.S. Championships. He has served several stints as vice president of ICA and one as ICA president, and helped found CoChess in the late ‘90’s. He’s a former member of USCF’s Executive Board and chaired USCF’s Scholastic Committee. His wife of 42 years died in the fall of 2009. Shortly thereafter Garrett agreed to assume a hot seat as chair of ICA’s new Bid Committee.
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