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1) Regarding guest players for REAL clubs league, I think you must make strict rules about guest players. Rule#1 I propose that each club can use only 1 guest player to participate in match for each 10 tables per match. Rule #2 Club can register up to 10% guest players of total players registered for a REAL club participating in REAL club league.Rule #3 You must define a rule how clubs will prove that players competing for a club are really memers of that REAL chess club.

Hi guys! I'm the admin of the Waco Chess Club Online team. I want to get at least 1-2 "practice matches" in with some of the other teams before the season starts. It would essentially be like a "preseason" in regular sports. The idea would be for at least us to test out and make sure we can run an online match properly, and to get some of our players practice. We don't have to bring our best players and obviously this would not affect the Chess.com Club's League at all. Just some fun action while we wait for round 1 pairings, please let me know if you are interested ... no matter the club size

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Hello, My club has 446 members. But many of them will play for other clubs maybe. So, will I kick out them or will I make a new club especially for this league?

Is there any way our online chess club profiles can get some kind of badge to certify that we are the official chess.com version of that real life club or program?

In the "Essential Info" page, https://www.chess.com/news/view/chess-com-clubs-league-essential-info the definition of a club was "clubs must have both an in-person component (regular meetings) and a Chess.com/club presence." My club, Badgers Brook Chess Club was initially refused entry to this tournament on the basis that we didn't have "physical "face-to-face" chess club that meets in person". I had to provide evidence from the webpage of our national federation (Chess Scotland) that we do actually have a face to face club. Our chess.com group has been active since 2008, the forum therein is littered with match reports from OTB league matches and some games. Looking at the list of clubs (https://www.chess.com/news/view/participating-teams-1) i can see there are a large number of groups who are obviously the extension of an OTB club, some of those have created a new group for the purposes of this league. Some others seem to represent an association, federation or even a local league. To me, this does not seem to fit the definition of a club. There are many others whose groups do not resemble an OTB in any way, mostly newly created for the purpose of competing in this league. It is this, combined with the fact that teams can invite virtually anyone they want to join their team, which makes this league just like all the other leagues that have been running on the site for many years. It literally is a free-for-all. I have recommended to my club-mates that we don't bother with this league, it's not what was advertised. I await their decision.