You can find 3 invitation strategies on chesscom. 🙄

A:Ambitious = You are not allowed to enter this club if you don't have a predefined playing strength (I once tried to enter such a club, but my rating was too low. 😡)

B:Brute force = The hunger for growth is unlimited. These clubs send away each day 30 invitations, detecting sometimes the very next day, that their new member already quit or was banned by chess.com. (In one case I witnessed, that a spoiled Indian kid made instantly such trouble in the comments, that it had to be kicked out. 🙂)

C:Community oriented = Size doesn't matter. The growing rate is slow.

Friends and people known as nice and helpful are free. But if a stranger is invited, his account is checked, and he must meet the REAP-Standard 😇.

REAP stands for

Reliability Experience Availability and Playing strength.

(The standard is an internal agreement and is not communicated publicly. 🙂)

Reliability = player has not time-outs (I once was kicked out of a team, because I had lost a game on time)

Experience = player is at least... months member of chesscom (I personally prefer a player, that's already 12 months with chess.com.)

Availability = player has time to play for us (I don't invite players, that have already 100 daily games running. I don't invite players, that are already member of a dozen clubs. 😝)

Playing strength = You can set a minimum playing strength (Otherwise a player with a rating of 400 would never get the chance to play in a team match, if team matches are your specialty, because team matches with 100 boards are very rare. 🤔).

Please give me your opinions. Miki 🐰🦉.

To the models: B or C?

And to the details of a standard. Where are the red lines for you?

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