Chess & Strategy Game Tournament Schedule

SCA: School Chess Association Tournaments

School Chess Association tournaments for the 2022-2023 school year are posted by SCA.

CSGA has tournament coaching available at all SCA tournaments. Contact Paul Sackaroff: psackapawn@gmail.com

Get details and register at:

http://schoolchess.org/

Tournament Dates: October 15, November 5, November 19, December 3, January 7, January 21, February 18, March 11, March 25, April 8, May 6-7, May 20.

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CSGA Chess Tournament Program

CSGA Chess Tournament dates are tentative at this time. We encourage chess players to keep these dates open:

Year End Tournament Finals

  • Edina: Friday 4/21/23 (Register)
  • S. Wash: Saturday 4/22/23 (Register)
  • NE Regional Final: Saturday, 4/29/23 (621, 623, 624, 832, 282, 12, 625)

Fall Club/Mid Season Winter Tournaments:

  • Edina: Friday 1/20/23
  • NE Region: Thursday or Friday Jan 26/27 (612, 001, 190, 624, 282)
  • Roseville Library: Friday Feb 10

This page was updated on March 16th, 2023

Contact Us

Chess & Strategy Game Association Board of Directors

Give us a call today to learn more about our upcoming events!

Bill Nara
651.208.8762
bill.nara@csga-enrichment.org

Rich Weber
651.307.2851
richardmweber@comcast.net

Jeff Hahn
jeff.w.hahn@outlook.com

Julie Miller
djjamiller@me.com

Our Mission

We exist to provide opportunities for young players to get together to learn new games, strategies, and tactics at open events and competitions. We also promote a growing community of chess and strategy game players that value learning, teaching, and fun through playing games that foster creativity, analysis, socialization, fair play, mental challenges, and connectedness.

Our Story

The Chess & Strategy Game Association, CSGA Enrichment, was founded in 2014 by Executive Director Bill Nara, a former high school teacher, who saw a great need for before and after school programs and summer programming for students in K-12.

As a youth, Bill participated in programs based on his personal interests and found these programs were no longer offered to students. He began CSGA programming with chess and strategy games with 5 students in one school district.  As the program grew, CSGA brought on Associate Executive Director Jason Lavine, and expanded CSGA into more school districts.

It became apparent that additional programs beyond chess and strategy games were needed to meet the needs and interests of students. STEM programs including coding, 3D printing, robotics, and rocket building, and cultural and arts classes including cooking, young writers workshop, rock band, and Improv, and specific interest programs such as crafting, knitting, and fishing were added. 

More recently, online program options have been introduced for chess players and students interested in personal finance and the stock market. CSGA wants students engaged in self motivated activities that could lead to entrepreneurship. CSGA is currently operating in over 11 school districts reaching over 1,200 students.