How can I host a simul?

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so far as I know - the answer is NO.

surely, though, if your special you CAN get chess.com to make an exception.

as I recollect, chess.com hosted a simul with Magnus Carlsen and a few lucky opponents.  but he is the WCC.  that matters.

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if this is important to you. I'm pretty sure it can be done over skype.

Do you mean on chess.com or in person?  It's pretty easy in person.

1)  Find a large space.

2)  Find some tables and chairs.

3)  Find a bunch of chess boards.

(stuff like this might all be already available at a nearby school chess club, for example)

4)  Find someone to conduct the simul (I'm not clear if you wanted to do it yourself).

5)  Pick a time and advertise it.

Example:

I once knew an NM who did a rolling simul at a local gaming convention to drum up publicity for the local chess club.  He just showed up with one other member to assist him, and they set up ten boards on folding tables, and he played anyone who wanted to play, all day -- up to ten at a time.  If numbers got small, he played blindfold.  Pretty easy, really.

I'm pretty sure he meant online.

but....maybe not.

I have played a couple newb players before.  it was fun!  it DOES make chess harder, though.  it's easy to miss something important.

I guess you're main task is to convince chess.com to let you do it.  If they let you have a time slot on Chess TV, I am sure at least some folks will show up.

ok, well yep

RC is right. 

chess.com CAN do it (they have the programming) but they have to host it and all that.  unless you've got a secret identity; the answer is surely NO.

I think all you need to do is go into your live chess settings and turn on the option to allow you to play multiple games at a time.  Then send or accept multiple challenges.

Live chess settings: https://www.chess.com/settings/live 

Unless you are very very fast,  you would need to get multiple people to agree to some kind of custom time control where you could survive.

How to do that doesn't appear obvious to me.  

Would probably be easier if you set it up in Daily Chess, where you can have practically unlimited time.

You would just have to play slow time controls.  Most online simuls are 15|10 at the fastest.  A decent player should be able to play several 15|10 games simultaneously against inferior opposition.  If you want more than a small handful of opponents, you probably want something a bit slower, like 25|10.

So you think that it's important for the person giving the simul to be better than the average of his or her opponents?  

There was somebody on the other day asking the same thing and he wanted to play 20 games at once and didn't care if he lost all 20 games.

I said that I thought it would be very hard to find 20 people wiling to sit around for that long against someone who wasn't a lot better than the average.

Usually the person giving the simul is the stronger player, yes.  That's kind of the point: you give weaker players a chance to play a strong player far enough above their level that they don't normally get to play.  Additionally, because the stronger player is playing several simultaneous games, they won't play at as high a level, so the weaker players have a chance.

If playing a simul makes you play, say, 200 points below your normal level, why would you play a simul against players stronger than you?  Why would they play in your simul?  But if a titled player plays a simul, lots of untitled players will want to play.  If an 1800 player plays a simul, lots of <1500 players will want to play.