Livingston Scholastic Chess Tournaments
MISSION STATEMENT
To make every child intelligible from a young age while developing a strong character and the right attitude.
GOALS
- Our primary goal is to develop the child into an excellent thinker (analytically, logically, rationally and strategically)
- To affect the standard of education with the quality of our programs
- To produce young adults who can compete favorably against the best in the world
- To introduce chess, develop a chess program and offer it as part of the school's curriculum
- To help elementary schools build chess teams, form chess clubs and participate at state, national and international events
- To organize closed United States Chess Federation rated chess tournaments for elementary schools running our program
- To organize open scholastic United States Chess Federation rated tournaments for elementary school kids
- To organize camps for both elementary and middle school kids
Siegbert Tarrash
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make people happy
Anatoly Karpov
Chess is everything - art, science, and a sport
Bobby Fischer
Chess is life