Ko7 wrote:
You can do manual tournament in the group and games are played through Live Chess...at least until live chess tourneys are added....
This is an alternative, but bear in mind that we are leading with 25 students per class each one with a laptop and we really need easy instructions and procedures. Otherwise, we will not be able to manage them... :)
This statement raises a different question, I guess that those 25 laptops will share the same external and public IP address, is Live chess banning automatically 2 players sharing the same public IP address and tryin g to play a game? If so, how could we sort this out?
Dear all,
(This is a message I have from a colleague of mine who is a teacher in secondary school here in Spain and who is leading a project to present Chess.com as alternative to the most known social networks (Facebook, Orkut, Tuenti...etc.)
"We are introducing the Chess.com community to some students when teaching the social networks in the Internet. In fact, we find in this page most of the features you can get from other social networks plus the enjoyable and always didactic game of chess.
It has been a long way to get this page authorised from the filters in our government servers and firewalls (to allow students enter in the public school computers to this site... don't know why but it was not in the safe list before, probably because of the advertising or something like that) but finally, last week we got it and now we can enable access from any point in the school.
However, one of the activities I was planning first it is to create chess tournaments in order to let them play (probably it would be 50% of the time, interacting with the site in the social network and the rest of the time, playing chess) but I am afraid that online chess tournament will not suit to us as we have to finish the games in less than 40 minutes time and on the other hand, I cannot find a tournament feature in Live Chess.
So, the question is: Are there any plans to add this feature to Live Chess? I mean, the possibility to create invite only tournaments to a given group of users to play Live Chess.
The group we have created for that is:
Chess LA FLOTA
(No students have joined so far, as I would like to ensure we manage correctly all the site features, and basically because part of the training is to let them to create their profile and add all the social information. The students are 14 y.o.)
Thanks in advance for your reply of this subject"
PS any tips and / or advise about this iniciative, in case you are already doing this in other schools or similar, please let us know. Thanks!