Membership Information
Come Join Us
If you are blind or visually impaired, all you need to become a member of the USBCA is the desire and the readiness to enjoy some great games of chess. Membership is $30 per year and covers things like tournament prizes and chess instruction.
As a paying member of the USBCA, you get:
- The ability to play in correspondence and realtime chess tournaments with the oppertunity to win cash prizes
- Your own correspondence and realtime ratings
- Your name and rating on the USBCA correspondence and realtime ratings lists
- Chess instruction from our consultants
- Access to The USBCA Braill Library of chess material
- The ability to vote in USBCA board elections and to run for office if you are a US citizen
- The ability to volunteer to promote chess in the blindness community
[For joining instructions or for more information, see our Home page