Guidance for Vote Chess Teams

Vote Chess is a team activity & can be very rewarding when played properly. The interchange of ideas that takes place during the discussion surrounding moves can help even experienced players improve their game.

When facing a determined & skilled opponent in a game of vote chess, it's important to consider your moves with the greatest care. Teams that are disorganised, don't discuss their moves or vote too early, generally lose most of their games!

Being a member of a team entails obligations towards all other team members, so we would ask all those who participate in our Vote Chess games to observe the following guidance:-

Please treat all members of both your own & opponent's teams with respect at all times. Try to exercise patience with other members & avoid being patronising to less experienced players. In short, treat others as you would like to be treated.

Please avoid voting too early. As a general rule, the first two-thirds of our voting time should be reserved for discussion alone, with voting in the time remaining. Since most of our games will be three days per move, this should give our members an entire day in which to vote.

Please participate in the discussion over moves. We believe this is the real strength of VC & apart from being a much better way of finding good moves, also has the potential to help us all improve as players. To that end, we would encourage less experienced players to ask questions when they are unclear about some proposed move or tactic & the higher-ranked players to try to answer those questions, courteously.

There is no obligation on any member of a team to vote on a particular move but if you do, please only vote for a move that has been suggested already & looks o/k (i.e. 'candidate' moves). That way we can weed out any unsuitable or dangerous moves & avoid voting for them.

To summarise the above: Vote only for candidate moves & then only in the final 24 hours of our time!

Stephen_33 (team Wales)

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