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Oberweis is an avid chess player. In 2013, he had a USCF rating of 1926 (class A). [4] He supported the Fox Valley Chess Club for many years. He also served as President of the Illinois Chess Association for two years, as Illinois delegate to the USCF, [47] and as a trustee of the American Chess Foundation and the Chess Trust Fund. [3]
In 1939, the United States of America Chess Federation was created in Illinois through the merger of the American Chess Federation and National Chess Federation.The American Chess Federation, formerly the Western Chess Association, had held an annual open championship since 1900; that tournament, after the merger, became the U.S. Open. [5]
The DuPage Valley Conference (DVC) is an organization of six high schools in northeastern Illinois, representing seven communities in Chicago's suburbs. These high schools are all members of the Illinois High School Association. The Conference, organized in 1975, exists primarily for inter-school athletic competition in 21 sports.
This is a list of chess organizations.Chess is played all over the world. The dominant international governing body of chess is FIDE, which confers titles and conducts world championship tournaments.
Albert Sandrin Jr. (25 April 1923 – 12 February 2004) was an American chess master. He won the 1949 U.S. Open in Omaha, and took 2nd in the 1951 U.S. Open in Fort Worth. He won the Illinois State Championship in 1944 and the Chicago Championship in 1946, 1949, 1957, and 1968. [1] Sandrin had pigmentary degeneration of the retina. [2]
The Glenbard South Symphonic Band won the 2007 Illinois Superstate Concert Band Festival in the Class AA Division. The previous time the band won was in 1992. [17] In 2010, the Glenbard South Chess Team finished high enough at the IHSA State Chess Tournament to win the Illinois Chess Coaches Association's State Championship in the 3A division. [18]
The IHSA was founded on December 27, 1900, at a rump session of the Illinois Principals Association. Known as the Illinois High School Athletic Association for the first 40 years of its existence, the IHSA is the second oldest of the 52 state high school associations. Only the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association outdates it, by two ...
The Lincoln Prairie Conference or LPC, is a high school athletic conference in Central Illinois. [1] The first year of existence was the 2019-20 school year. Its schools belong to the IHSA and compete in many sports and other activities.