User:Gr8song/Gateway Chess League

Gateway Chess League is an organization of Saint Louis, MO area K-12 schools whose students compete in scholastic chess. The league sponsors competitions that determine the Senior High League and the Junior High League champions. The league also sponsors the Crossroads Elementary Tournament, the Gateway Chess League Fall Tournament, the Gateway Chess League Board Tournament, the Gateway Chess League Class Tournament, the Gateway Chess League Team Tournament, the Gateway Chess League Action Tournament, and the Bollinger Memorial Tournament. The League also sponsors, in cooperation with Columbia College and the Missouri Chess Association, the Missouri Scholastic Championships Tournament.

The Gateway Chess League started in 1964 and has had the following league presidents.

Year League President
1964 ~ 1971 Delmar Jorn
1971 ~ 1974 Charles Amelotti
1974 ~ 1976 Russell Phelps
1976 ~ 1978 Robert Sutter
1978 ~ 1980 Edward Baur
1980 ~ 1982 Edwin Willis
1982 ~ 1984 Edward Baur
1984 ~ 1987 Edwin Willis
1987 ~ 1989 Edward Baur
1989 ~ 1995 Charles Zeller
1995 ~ 2000 Thomas Johnston
2000 ~ 2005 Brad Schmidt
2005 ~ 2006 Thomas Johnston
2006 ~ 2015 Sam Kassis

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