All Girls Chess tournament

The Rockefeller, Barber, Denker and Haring DC Scholastic Cup is a series of citywide events for all levels of players.The qualifier for the Rockefeller, Barber Denker and Haring national tournaments will be hosted on line due to COVID circumstances. Over the board tournaments will resume March 2022.

 The Executive Board of US Chess has added the Ruth  Haring, Denker, Rockefeller and Barber Champion to its list of qualifiers for the World Youth or the World Cadet Championship and the US Cadet Championship. The qualifying student in case of a tie will be the highest finishing player on tie-breaks who meets the eligibility requirements of the World Youth/World Cadet event for the US Chess delegation and the US Cadet Championship. The qualifying person needs a US FIDE flag to be eligible to represent the US in the World Youth/World Cadet and US Cadet Championships.

State Affiliate Requirements

Each State Affiliate (which shall include DC for purposes of this Tournament) shall be allowed one Representative as determined by its US Chess State Affiliate. The exception is California, which sends two players, one representing Northern California and the other Southern California. We strongly encourage each State Affiliate to identify a tournament to determine its K-8 Champion. State affiliates may not limit the selection process for the Barber to exclude students below the Middle School grades, but must permit all players who are in K through 8th grade to participate. If no open tournament is held, then a State Affiliate invitational composed of the highest rated K-8 players may be used. If that is not possible then the highest rated K-8 player should be offered the opportunity to play by the State Affiliate.

If the official representative is unable to compete, the State Affiliate may substitute its next most qualified player, etc. Each State Affiliate should make every effort to send a representative to this prestigious event.

Jon Haskel, Barber Committee Chairman, will mail the Barber Nomination Form to each authorized State Affiliate official. The official must then email the form back to Jon by June 20th. The Barber Committee reserves the right to appoint a representative for any State Affiliate that fails to meet this deadline. To eliminate byes, the host State Affiliate (State Affiliate in which the tournament is held) may provide an alternate who will only play in rounds that have an odd number of players. The alternate is eligible for prizes and if s/he does not play a round, s/he will receive free entry into a side event and/or will be given a pairing into the US Open for that round.

Eligibility

All participants must be residents of the State Affiliate they represent for 30 days prior to the date of their qualifying tournament. They must be under the age of 16 on September 1 of the year in which the tournament is held. The players must be enrolled in an approved K-8 curriculum pursuing a promotion/graduation certificate for a minimum of 30 school days prior to the qualifying event. The Representative may be taking classes concurrently at any high school prior to the qualifying event.