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Everyone should be familiar with Chess.com Community Policies and TOS https://www.chess.com/community https://www.chess.com/agreement What sometimes causes confusion is whether these apply to just the public areas at chess.com or also private clubs and private messages/private chat. I believe TOS and the Community Policies refer to the public areas of chess.com and do not govern private clubs. For example: 1) The "Chess.com Community Policies" has "Do not publicly debate religious or political topics" which some private clubs allow (think of some of the discussion clubs). 2) TOS has "post any comments, text, messages, or links in the forums or any public comments that contain any advertisements of any kind, including religious, political, or recruiting messages for Chess.com groups, clubs, blogs, or any other content on or off of Chess.com" while some clubs allow for club recruiting messages and club and/or match advertisements. 3) The Community Policies has "Be kind, helpful, and forgiving" and TOS has no "harassing, defamatory" post. In my experience from reporting, chess.com staff sets a much higher bar for such posts in private clubs versus public areas.4) TOS has "invasive of another's privacy". In my experience, any quote or screenshot from a private message or private chat that identifies the sender and put him in a negative light would be deleted by staff in the public areas but rarely in private clubs. 5) TOS prohibits "vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit" but some private clubs allow some of such content. Think of Playboy Warrior which I believe allows for partial (or whole?) nudity which is not allowed for pubic avatars or in public forums. https://www.chess.com/club/playboy-chess-warriors 6) TOS prohibits "objectionable" posts. The private clubs are free (within certain limits) to set their own rules for what is allowed or not. 7) TOS prohibits "post any comments, text, messages, or links in the forums or any public comments that is off topic or irrelevant to the purpose and content of the original content, game, article, blog, or forum topic;". Private clubs are free to make their own rules and some of the Free Speech discussion clubs have no rules against spam. In conclusion, the TOS refers several times to "the [public] forums or any public comments". My understanding is the TOS and "Chess.com Community Policies" govern all the public areas of chess.com. That said, there is a smaller set of site-wide rules which govern all content on chess.com including private clubs and private messages and chat. These include a prohibition of sexual harassment, extreme personal harassment, clear racism (including the use of the N-word and other racial slurs).

Admin guides are not rules that you must follow in your own club. They are examples that you can adopt in full or in part if you find them useful. Feel free to copy them and share them elsewhere, but if you borrow heavily from someone else's work it would be polite to credit them. Every club that plays vote chess and tries to have an organised discussion faces problems with rogue voters. When someone votes early without a good reason and without participating in the discussion, for a first offence, send them a message similar to this: Hey!It's good to see you taking part in our vote chess games at (insert your club's name)!Just a comment on how we like to play vote chess: we like to discuss the position and analyse it together before we vote. So we have the following rules:1. Don't vote until the last 24 hours unless there's a good reason.2. Only vote for a move that has been discussed in the comments.3. Anyone can suggest a candidate move.Here's the rules in full: (insert link to your club's vote chess policies)If you see a good move, add a comment suggesting it and explaining why you think it's a good move! Then other players can consider it and vote for it too, or we can explain why it's not a good move after all.Waiting for the last 24 hours to vote also means we have two days (adapt this if you're not playing three-day games) to discuss the position and consider several different possible moves. You can't change your vote, so if people vote early and then someone discovers a problem with that move, we may not be able to get enough votes to chose a different move.Thanks! Then you should have a thread in your HQ club where you track people who have been warned and when the warning was issued, and what response, if any, was received. If you receive a positive response, it is often worthwhile being more patient on a second offence. If you do not receive a meaningful positive response, it's time to take action. Either remove the rogue voter from your club, or remove them from all vote chess games and add them to a list of members to be removed from vote chess games in future. Some rogue voters do participate in team matches too, and so may be worth keeping around in the club if that's important to you. Do you have a similar set of policies that would be useful for other admins to consider, or any other useful feedback? Please share in the comments!

Hello friends, how are you all doing? I have a club with 900 members and we are currently a relatively active club in multi-club arenas. But I would like our club to also become active in daily matches, so we need someone to serve as a coordinator and organize daily matches for us.I don't expect anything more from this person... Our club also has club tournaments with prizes and is therefore very, very active... Anyone who wants to be a coordinator can contact me personally or in the comments. Thanks,DavidP.S: This is my club: https://www.chess.com/club/chess-com-schachmatt

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Hello everyone, I am looking for any admins that is willing to help with my club. My club is called The Ge-Winner: it has around 1300 members, played around 2000 events. #290 in daily matches and #239 in vote chess matches. We have puzzles to solve occasionally, live events every Sunday for our blitz players. Daily and Vote chess matches list and WOM (WOM is not active at the moment), won many medals from league competition etc. As you can see from our club's achievements, we are a very active club on chess.com. Now we want to improve the club with more admins. Admins that are able to do their roles.  Below are the list of roles needed: A person who helps manage leagues like TCMAC, KOTML, TMCL etc. (More than 1 person can apply this role) Someone who welcomes every new member via private message.  Someone who does announcements for only friendly matches that require help Someone who creates internal arenas in addition of the ones that are already there Someone who makes announcements for arenas and recruiting people to join the arenas and Daily Matches. Someone who updates the Vote Matches List for every new vote chess match that is currently ongoing (you can do this daily or every three days as long as you are able to do it).  NOTE: You can also take more than one task. NOTE: If you want to do another task that is not in this list, ask and maybe this would also help. You can apply for more than one role but you MUST be able to do it, failure to comply with the rules will result in you losing your role. You will be promoted to an admin or coordinator once we have confirmed your role. NOTE: You will get notified if something isn’t like it should be. Requiements for the roles: have at least a chess.com account for 9 months If you have any questions or further details about the roles, feel free to message me ( @LordWinter30) or @Shatterdude66 and we will respond to you as soon as possible. Write me or @Shatterdude66 a private message or write in the comment section if you decided to help. Link for the Club: https://www.chess.com/club/the-ge-winner   Thanks! Have a nice day!

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Everytime i wanna view a challenge by clicking on "view" the page with the challenge info doesn't load !! WHY ?? Can somebody explain , greetz Marco

When searching the members list, for people from Canada, daily rating 1000-1500, this is the result.

How can I merge pinned topics into one? This is intended to help with the overabundance of pinned topics. Now you can find them in one place, highlighted in blue, just click on it and voila, that's it. An example of what it looks like:

Hi fellow club admins.  I am introducing multiple leagues in which many clubs would be able to participate. These leagues will be organized by my club (link in bio).  I would be needing multiple people to organize these.  If you want to host, comment below.  If you DM me i might not check that but lets see. 

We are pleased to present to you the new edition of League of Legends 2026 season. This is our first tournament and it is for those under 1400 rating (Daily Chess). Your team will play up to 10 rounds. Now we play the second round. Registration is still open for the teams coming. We welcome everyone who joins us. https://www.chess.com/club/league-clubs

I need all of your guys' help. I own over 10 social clubs, and have literally only made 1. But my friends have left chess.com and want me to take care of their clubs. I do have the time, I just need to be more effective with how I manage it. So this is mainly for experienced admins/owners, but anyone's thoughts on how to take care of them? (BTW, the members range from 3 to 202).

as seen here, i can report myself but what will happen if i block and report myself lol?

as seen here, i can report myself but what will happen if i block and report myself lol?

please list ban attackers you met before in your club so other clubs can prevent them from entering and play ban attack: @renjisange @renjisige @@I_was_closed_by_lichess  @ Number1_guaguapumpkin

Do you think it is possible to add tabs to the mailbox to sort messages

this club: https://www.chess.com/club/the-super-admin-legends faced a ban attack yesterday and it dropped to 170 from 190. I am wondering how can we prevent this from happening?

. First registrations are open for ONE WORLD League's Season 2026. Admins from all clubs are invited to check open registrations for these competitions (daily chess with 3 days/move): 1WL Continental Championships and 1WL World Cup Challengers 2026 on first Sundays from December to June: Divisions without rating limits and on 20+ / 15+ / 10+ and 5+ boards. Twelve clubs from Continental Championships and World Cup Challengers 2026 will qualify for the 1WL World Cup 2026/2027 and will face four finalists from the previous World Cup 2025/26. 960 Grand Prix • 960 OPEN and U1400 on second Sundays from December to June (lower divisions may have additional rounds in July and August): Divisions without rating limits on 40+ / 32+ / 24+ / 16+ / 12+ / 8+ and 4+ boards and for players rated under 1400 on 16+ / 12+ / 8+ / 6+ and 4+ boards. U1800 / U1400 / U1000 on third Sundays from December to August: U1800 divisions on 25+ / 20+ / 15-20 / 10-15 / 5-10 and 4+ boards. U1400 divisions on 20+ / 15-20 / 10-15 / 5-10 and 4+ boards. U1000 divisions on 12+ / 8+ and 4+ boards. U1600 / U1200 on fourth Sundays from December to August: U1600 divisions on 25+ / 20+ / 15-20 / 10-15 / 5-10 and 4+ boards. U1200 divisions on 16+ / 12+ / 8+ / 6+ and 4+ boards. Registrations for more and very different tournaments in Season 2026, e.g. several with 1 day/move or e.g. some which are reserved to new, small or weak clubs, will open soon. Please mention the club(s) you're intending to represent with your apply to join the League.