Refund Policy
If you have registered in advance and you
are not going to attend the
tournament, please make sure that you inform the
Tournament Director
about this at least one hour before the game time.
We do not want to pair you, causing your opponent to wait for you not to
show up and then have you lose your game on forfeit. To contact the Tournament Director, please send an email to director@chess.us and indicate your name, USCF ID number
and which section of the tournament you have entered. Beginning about 7:00 pm Friday March 13th,
please also call the Saratoga Hilton Hotel at 518-584-4000 and ask for “the Chess
Tournament.” Please do not leave any messages with the hotel switchboard, as
they might not be delivered in time to prevent you from receiving a forfeit
loss on your game.
After giving sufficient notice of your
withdrawal, you may either request a refund for your entry fee, and there is a
$15 service charge to process refunds, which are done after the
tournament. During the CoronaVirus alert,
we will only issue one $15 service charge per order, not for each player. To receive a refund please send an email to director@chess.com and indicate your name,
USCF ID number and which section of the tournament you have entered. It may take a couple of weeks for us to
process all the refund requests.
Alternatively, you may use your entire
entry fee for another Continental
Chess tournament (this entry fee transfer only applies to Continental Chess tournaments),
with no service charge. After giving us
sufficient notice of your withdrawal (see above), you can then send us an email
before your next Continental Chess
tournament, indicating that you wish to apply your credit from the 2022 NY
State Scholastics to another Continental
Chess tournament.
US Chess Federation (USCF) membership dues
are forwarded to the USCF and the USCF might not issue refunds for membership
dues.
Thank you.
Tournament Director