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OCF Member Ratings

Please find your rating at the United States Chess Federation (USCF) website at:

http://www.uschess.org/msa/

or the Northwest Scholastic Rating System (NWSRS) website at:

http://www.nwsrs.org/nwsrs.jsp?panel=content/readContent.jsp&ArticleID=279

OCF Members

There is no minimum age requirement to join the Oregon Chess Federation.

The Oregon Chess Federation has three classes of membership:

Full Member Membership

This membership is for one year. Full Membership includes a voting membership in the Oregon Chess Federation plus a 12-month subscription to Northwest Chess Magazine. Cost is $25.00 per year for Adults and $17.00 for Juniors under age 20 at the expiration of their annual membership.

Associate Membership

This membership is for one year. Associate Membership includes a voting membership in the Oregon Chess Federation but does not include a subscription to Northwest Chess Magazine. Cost is $5.00 per year. Associate memberships may be purchased by a member of the immediate family living in the same household as a full Adult or Junior member.

Tournament Membership

This membership can only be purchased at a tournament in Oregon or Washington and lasts through the end of the event only. Tournament Membership cost is $5.00 per tournament. This is a non-voting membership and does not include a subscription to Northwest Chess Magazine. PLEASE NOTE: This Tournament rate is not on the Membership Application (see below) but is still available at tournaments.

JOINING OCF

NORTHWEST CHESS

WASHINGTON CHESS FEDERATION (WCF) & OREGON CHESS FEDERATION (OCF)

SUBSCRIPTION / MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION / RENEWAL FORM

PDF version on Northwest Chess website:

http://www.nwchess.com/nwcmag/NWC_MemberApp_201010.pdf

You may join OCF at any time. If you choose a Full Member or Associate Membership, your membership is for the twelve-month period starting from the date of your membership. If you choose a Tournament Membership, it is good only for the event in which you are entered.

OCF does not require their members to also be members of USCF. However, most OCF Tournament events do require USCF membership. For full USCF membership information, please visit their website at:

http://main.uschess.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,323/ .

Eric Holcomb, Northwest Chess Magazine's Business Manager, handles OCF membership payments made in advance of a tournament event.

FULL MEMBER AND ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIPS

Please make your check or money order payable to NORTHWEST CHESS

(NOT Oregon Chess Federation!)

and mail it to:

Oregon Chess Federation – Membership

c/o Eric Holcomb, Business Manager

Northwest Chess Magazine

1900 NE 3rd Street

Suite 106-361

Bend, OR 97701-3889

eric@holcomb.com

TOURNAMENT MEMBERSHIP

Please make your $5.00 check or money order payable to OREGON CHESS FEDERATION

and bring it with you to the first day of the event, giving it to the tournament director.

You may combine your OCF Tournament Membership dues with your tournament entry fee.

Questions? Please contact:

Dale Wentz

OCF Tournament Coordinator

dandtwentz@msn.com

OCF accepts checks and money orders (made payable to Oregon Chess Federation) when mailed, as well as cash on the first day of a tournament event or during OCF's annual meeting which is held Labor Day weekend during the Oregon Open Chess Tournament (a receipt will be provided to you at those times). Please do not mail cash.

OCF accepts credit card payments via Paypal only. You do not need a Paypal account in order to send money. For more information on Paypal, please visit www.paypal.com.

Paypal is not available during OCF tournament events or the annual meeting.

Please use info@nwchess.com as the Paypal payment email address or visit the following link:

Northwest Chess Magazine's Paypal Form

This is conveniently set up with “Buy Now” buttons linking directly with Paypal

http://www.nwchess.com/nwcmag/MemberApp_PayPal.htm

If you are renewing your OCF membership, please do so at least one month in advance of your OCF membership expiration date to ensure a seamless transition and so you won't miss an issue of “Northwest Chess Magazine.”

Please note that OCF does not sell its membership's information.

The OCF membership's information is shared with the “Northwest Chess Magazine” (when Full Member Memberships are purchased), the Tournament Coordinator, and tournament directors, as necessary.

OCF publishes only the name, city, state, OCF membership ID number, expiration date of OCF membership, and membership type on our website. All other information is not published online to protect our members' privacy.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding membership, please contact:

OCF President

Dave Yoshinaga

dave@kdtonline.com

971-404-5251

OCF Member Meetings

Each year, one regularly scheduled membership meeting will be held.

Members shall meet during the Labor Day weekend at the site of the Oregon Open Chess Tournament for the transaction of OCF business. At this meeting on every even-numbered year the voting members will elect, by a plurality of those attending and voting, a Board of Directors consisting of the following officers: President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Tournament Coordinator, Scholastic Coordinator, and Director-at-Large. In addition, these United States Chess Federation (USCF) officers will be elected: USCF Delegate for Oregon, USCF Voting Member for Oregon, and at least one USCF Alternate Voting Member for Oregon.

In addition to regularly-scheduled meetings, the Board may call up to two additional meetings per year. Members must be given 30 days' notice prior to the date for such a meeting and the Board must call it upon petition of ten or more members.

Please refer to the Oregon Chess Federation, Inc. By-laws for further information.

www.oregonchessfed.org is the official website of the Oregon Chess Federation, Inc.