PicturesThe Riverside Youth Chess Association developed out of Riverside
Rotary Club’s chess program at Bryant Elementary School and Association President
Greg Taber’s chess program at Alcott Elementary School. The school
clubs joined with Linda Smith’s citywide scholastic tournament, offered at Sierra
Middle School as the “Lee Corbin Scholastic Chess Tournament.” The
Riverside Rotary Club, along with others, now sponsor the tournament as the
“Riverside Area Rotary Clubs Chess Tournament.” This year, the tournament is
January 25, 2003 at Sierra Middle School. A second tournament, the
“Riverside Gambit,” is March 8, 2003 at John W. North High School, hosted by
Katharine Atkinson's student Chess Club. In addition to school chess clubs,
Laurene Bryden is seeking funding for an after-school program at Bryant Elementary
School to include chess.
The
R.Y.C.A. officially formed as a non-profit group, working through the Riverside
Rotary Club in Spring 2002, with a mission to “use the game of chess to enrich
lives of the youth of Inland Southern California.”
President Greg Taber
(909) 683-8744, Vice President Linda Smith, Treasurer Thomas Pevehouse, Sec’y
Laurene Bryden, Web Page teacher Katharine Atkinson (909) 536-9004 or e.mail
katharine_atkinson@hotmail.com Student Web Master James Bishop.
http://www.uschess.org/ http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/8184// http://northweb.rusd.k12.ca.us/This
web site has many resources for the true chess enthusiast!Local
chess opportunities.
John
W. North High School's web pageAge, with a link to the Chess Club's page,
with photos.
School
chess clubs: please send a message (click e.mail link at top) giving us the
web page for your club.
Southern California school Chess Clubs:
Sierra Middle School (Linda Smith, qxf7@aol.com , (909)788-7501
Alcott
Elementary School (Cesar Chavez, cchavez@alcott.rusd.k12.ca.us ,
(909) 780-9002)
Bryant Elementary School (Laurene Bryden, lbryden@rusd.k12.ca.us , (909)788-7453)
John W. North High School (Katharine Atkinson, katharine_atkinson@hotmail.com
, (909)536-9004)
Arlington High School (Stephania Niechayev
(909)788-7240 x 1152)
Martin Luther King High School (Mark Wicksted
(909)788-1107 x 3138)
