Ignore all the SA offers in the below sections. SA capacity is full as of right now. You can still have admins. And join my club if you wanna be friends, and if you want to see my friends list (which is strange), then you have to join my club and then I can friend you. Also, if you are a person who just friends me just because or to play rated games (given that your elo is <= my rating - 400ish), then I wouldn’t accept it.

Anyone can be SA in my club if they are able to frequently play chess with me and their rating has to be similiar to my rating (whenever I’m online, not a lot in a day, but almost everday of the week). They have to accept my challenge almost everytime when we are both online. However, I cannot guarantee that I can accept every challenge from them, so it is one-way: I send a challenge to you, you have to accept it, but I’m not required to accept challenges from you. Failure to do that results in temporary demotion to coordinator (NOT Admin just in case of a ban attack). However, if your rating is differs a lot with my rating, like more then ±100 elo (in either direction), then you can only get Admin (I’m sorry, but I have near capacity (#) of SA’s in my club right now.

Another way to be SA in my club is if I’m SA in your club, it can’t just be you in the whole club, and there are other conditions that we can talk through (mutual leadership defined below). I currently don’t accept anymore of these.

Also please do not demote/promote random people within the club, but you can still demote/promote people using common sense (so you don’t need my permission if it’s reasonable or else that will make all the SA roles useless, as in some clubs they do need permission from Owner), that’s different (as I experienced a ban attack in another club the other day where I promoted the ban attacker to SA; to be fair it was a super admin club). ~ Sorry, if you are the owner of that club seeing this.😔

Club Rules (I am going to add rules that I think should belong here whenever I feel like it's necessary; they are also on my profile close to the top):

1. Do not exchange personal/private information in my club. And do not DM me for personal/private information either.

2. Be age appropriate for all.

3. Use common sense.

Rules for Super Admins:

1. Do not promote anyone to SA or demote an existing SA without my permission (unless, of course they don't follow Mutual Leadership defined on my profile or in case of a ban attack, meaning that one or more of the Super Admins start to demote/kick/ban people for no good reason, then please demote them as quickly as possible)

2. Do whatever you want (post announcements/forums, promote/demote people with reason and control, make new rules, ect.) as long as it follows the club rules and there is no conflicts among you guys (Super Admins) and follow the LT system(it's also on my profile) if there is conflicts.

3. Read all the rules on my profile and announcements before asking me any questions.

Last time online view count (for myself): 384 views

Note: I will accept messages from everyone, while I’m online. However, only friends can message me while I’m offline. I won’t accept invites from the system. You’ll have to manually message me. Most of the time, I’m only willing to join clubs where I get Mutual Leadership defined below or just super admin if you don’t wanna join my club for SA.

I am sometimes active during the night: 2:00 AM UTC - 5:30 AM UTC (Note: I converted my local time to UTC, so that is why it’s in the displayed range). My time of activity will vary, but the listed time is when I’m most likely online.

I am the owner of a club currently named Elo Climbers’ Club (a club mainly for my chess.com friends, but anyone is welcome to join, and a club that links/bridges to other clubs): https://www.chess.com/club/elo-climbers-club

I’m open to all friend requests if you join my club OR play and/or chat with me otherwise if I’m just a “friend" of yours just for the statistics then I’m just going to unfriend you. Also, if you do join the club and decide to leave the club, I will also unfriend you (or you might do that already on your side), unless you clearly state that you only want to leave the club for some reason.

I like to send challenges to my chess.com friends, so if you are one of my friends, please excuse the challenges sometimes. I know that might be annoying for some of you (especially for the ones with like 100+ friends), so I will stop after about 3 challenge requests.

Before I go on, I would like to define a few club terms to simplify the language a little bit (there might exist official terms for these and they might mean something completely different outside of my profile, but I will stick to these custom terms for now):

Shadowing Leadership - When the owner of a large club takes a Super Admin role in a smaller club, extending their influence downward or outward.

Elevated Leadership - When the owner of a large club takes a Super Admin role in a smaller club, extending their influence downward or outward.

*WARNING (READ BEFORE PROCEEDING) - Sorry for the use of the terms of Shadowing Leadership and Elevated Leadership, it may sound offending and unfair to relate two people’s club in terms of size, but it’s how I decided to define these relations (I just love to explicitly define terms, so that I don’t get confused myself). If any of you found it offensive, please message me. So in the following chunks of text, there are going to be the use of these two terms under the assumptions that you are okay with the terms themselves.

Mutual Leadership - When owners of different clubs grant each other Super Admin positions, forming a reciprocal leadership alliance. Some may call this “Club Partners”, but in my opinion, not all “Club Partners” are like this, since no mutual SA exist. Note: I’ll take a break from Mutual Leadership because the # of SA’s is a little bit much. So that means my club won’t take any more SA’s by Mutual Leadership anymore for now.

Active Mutual Leadership - Mutual Leadership, but the owners of different clubs help each other out with each other’s club by being active in each other’s club. I will update this profile with this new term, when I become active again. Right now, I am just putting this term here.

Inactive Mutual Leadership - Mutual Leadership, but just on paper (or screen in this case). Both or just one of the Owners doesn’t do anything in the other Owner’s club (not even chatting or posting forum/announcements). I will update this profile with this new term, when I become active again. Right now, I am just putting this term here.

Corresponding Leadership - This term can be self-explanatory; basically one type of this is mutual leadership, you are a SA in my club and I am a SA in your club. However, this can also apply to coordinators and admins.

Unbalanced Leadership - The opposite of corresponding leadership, I will only do this for admin/coordinator in my club vs coordinator/member in your club, but NEVER for super admin in my club vs anything else UNLESS I specifically want you as SA.

I am going to do a little “shoutout” list here, like how some profiles do it on this website. However, this is a little different compared to the average “shoutout” list. It is the members that are already SA or is going to be SA in my club. For future SA’s: some may be on here because they requested to be SA, but for others, it is because I really want them to be SA’s in my club, but I hadn’t been able to interact with them a lot (either by playing or chatting), lately. I will make the future SA’s, actually SA’s once I’m going inactive again due to the end of summer break (for me) like Beginning of August - Mid August. I might do it beginning of August or last day of July. I am excited to make the following members SA. But, I made myself to wait. This list will be updated to just SA’s in my club towards the end of summer break. ONLY those super admins who are in “Mutual Leadership” relation with me shall advertise (clubs that have me as an SA and them as Owner) in my club, otherwise please keep it between you and the person(s) that you want to advertise it to. And I would never advertise my club in those other clubs, since I “advertise” privately, it has always been that way. But you (anybody, not just SA’s) are welcome to advertise my club if you want.

I won’t change the following until everyone listed under “Future SA’s” gets promoted. And I will do early promotes if they play chess with me (1 game required only - rated or unrated). But, everyone listed will eventually get SA. I will also mark the SA’s (with this symbol ✔️) that are safe from the demotion (see my club announcement if you are confused).

—————————————————BEGINNING OF SHOUT OUTS———————————————

Current SA’s (Not including me):

@JuanEgg - A really nice friend. The reason I am willing to voluntarily to give SA to @JuanEgg is because we played a lot in the past and @JuanEgg sends caring and supportive messages to me. So if you are @JuanEgg and seeing this right now, thank you for being thoughtful and kind. 😊✔️

@2ANISHGIRI2 - Granted SA via Mutual Leadership. We haven’t interacted (played chess or chatted) before, but you are the first one to promote me to SA by chance (I’m saying by chance because I didn’t have to work towards being SA and there are no club rules that says something similiar to “having anyone and everyone as SA” like the super admin legends club). I apologize for not being that active in your club, I will try my best while I’m still online during my summer break. In addition, I wanted to follow my own rules, since I prefer mutual leadership over just Elevated Leadership (from my POV - I am the smaller club’s owner and you are the larger club’s owner), which is what is happening so far. Once you are SA, you’ll always be welcome to advertise your club in my club.

@DAKIIIINGGGG - The friend that gave me the idea of the name of “Elo Climber’s Club” or something similiar to the effect of “recruiting players who have scope of improving.” Thank you for that and being active in my club. ✔️

@Astro_Pup - Granted SA via Mutual Leadership. You are the first person to have Mutual Leadership with me (well that is because before such thing is defined for me), so congrats 🙂. So, you’ll always be welcome to advertise your club in my club. Also, thank you for putting a reference to my username on your profile.

@Below_Freezing - Granted SA via Mutual Leadership. Thank you for offering to play chess with me, but due to time zone issues, or rather, personal schudules, I acknowledge your efforts to play with me. I apologize for not being active in your club, I will try my best while I’m still online during my summer break. In addition, I wanted to follow my own rules, since I prefer mutual leadership over just Shadowing Leadership (from my POV - I am the larger club’s owner and you are the smaller club’s owner), which is what is happening so far. Once you are SA, you’ll always be welcome to advertise your club in my club. ✔️

@agentspeedyman - Thank you for playing chess with me recently. It’s very difficult to find a user (for me) who is consistently online in a give time period/range (of the day) and chats during the game. I want to give you SA in my club just because I like members that play chess with me, so that the chat becomes more active (even if it is only between two people). You are one of my best chess.com friends I ever met. Keep it up! 😄✔️

@Shlok10009 - Granted SA via Mutual Leadership. You have an amazing club, I like it very much. So, thank you for inviting me to your club. I like all the events and stuff. ✔️

@KyivChessMaster - Granted SA via Mutual Leadership. You have an amazing club, I like it very much. So, thank you for inviting me to your club. I like all the events and stuff. ✔️

@AdiReshiram - Granted SA via Mutual Leadership. I always wanted to be SA in your club, thank you. ✔️

@rahuladharv - Honorable mention of an Admin (so not Super Admin). @rahuladharv is one of my best chess.com friends I ever met. Thank you. 🤝 (The checkmark is only for SA’s, so don’t worry about it)

—————————————————END OF SHOUT OUTS——————————————————

Crown Clutter - A situation where a club has too many Super Admins, leading to leadership overcrowding, inefficiency, or conflict. For my club, the max capacity of allowed Super Admins is 10 (so far). Only other members that are currently Super Admins can ask me to raise the capacity by direct messaging me or just make post or forum.

My club was initially created for “group messaging” my friends and playing games of chess together frequently (and also playing rated games for them to have the opportunity to win and get some elo points - I don’t do that anymore). However, most of the time that is not the case, so it transformed to a club that bridges to other clubs. So, I am willing to give anyone SA (Super Admin) when joining my club, as long as they are my friends and are the owners of one or more clubs of reasonable size compared to my club. I am willing to make them SA, if we agree to a mutual leadership on one of their owned clubs. Personally, I am not a fan of making someone SA and have a shadowing leadership or an elevated leadership without mutual leadership. I know that I might be doing that without mutual leadership already, so please, if I am accidentally doing that, message me. And also, I don’t want my club to have a crown clutter, so do not promote members to SA’s indefinitely. For other roles like regular admins or coordinators, I do not care. The goal of all the “leadership” stuff is to get someone who is willing to consistently and frequently (of course, I do take exceptions like trips and all that; we’ll negotiate) play chess with me whenever I’m online. Note: if you are a person who has like 100+ friends and clubs then the mutual leadership likely won’t happen due to the overwhelming messages and information, but I suppose none of them are actually going to read this anyways.

Of course, another option to be SA in my club is to give me refreshing ideas for the club and is willing to dedicate time to organize the club, but again I doubt that anyone is actually going to do this or is even reading this.

Also, I will only join clubs (this rule only applies when requested) if one of the SA’s is one of my friends or if I get SA in that club (without commitment e.g. no rules like I have to invite x members every day or anything daily). This also applies to the mutual leadership, because my club already bridges to your club, so there shouldn’t be a necessity to invite more people manually. I can just send them both links when inviting, that way our clubs both gain one at the same time, under the assumption that they are not already in one of our clubs. Just to be clear, I’m not trying to steal members from larger clubs (I think that this case is very rare), if they do only join my club and not yours then, I will kick them out of my club if they are not my friend (which is also rare).

Lastly, I will put the other clubs that I am SA in (to thank whoever promoted me - probably the owners). The first four are actually clubs that are real compared to the last 3. But, I keep the links just to be consistent with my SA roles:

https://www.chess.com/club/kings-climb

https://www.chess.com/club/the-national-chess-games

https://www.chess.com/club/t-knights

https://www.chess.com/club/atlantis1

https://www.chess.com/club/chesslovers-club-1

https://www.chess.com/club/2-cold

https://www.chess.com/club/do-whatver-you-waant-club

These are clubs that I am not SA in, but have Corresponding Leadership with, so they can advertise their club as well (so far only 1 club):

https://www.chess.com/club/30-second-hyper

New Section regarding Club LT System

⚠️ Club LT System (Starting Mid-August)

I'll be inactive starting mid-August, so I created a system to help keep things fair and organized while I’m away. This system should only be used as a last resort when Super Admins (SAs) can't agree. Talking it out first is always better.

If even one SA says “No” (with a valid reason), this system won’t be used at all. Say “Yes” if you agree — no reason needed — to show you're active and contributing.

🌟 LT (Leadership Token) System

SAs earn Leadership Tokens (LTs) by helping the club or playing me. Your total LTs are listed on my profile scoreboard.

The owner (I) do not have any LTs due to my inactivity although I do reserve the right to stop anything that is against the club rules
Most LTs = Lead SA (not owner)
Lead SA can decide things only if no SA disagrees
If there’s a disagreement, we do a Split in Idea vote
Scoreboard updates may be very very slow after Aug 19 @ 5:00 AM UTC-0

🪓 Split in Idea (Voting When SAs Disagree)

Each SA posts their idea (forum or announcement)
Your idea starts with your LT total as points
Other SAs can reply: “Support [Name] because...”
Their LT total adds to your idea’s score
Highest score wins (as long as it’s fair)

✅ Support multiple ideas
✅ Change/remove support
✅ Link posts so votes are traceable
🚫 Don’t interfere with the winning SA if the system is in use (the system is used if this is still here)

➕ LT Requests (Gain or Loss)

Anyone can request LT changes (name, amount, reason).
If no SA objects after some time, the change is accepted.
If any SA objects, a vote or Split in Idea starts.

LTs affect decision-making weight — but rule-breaking ideas don’t count, no matter how many LTs support them. Anyone can request rule changes too.

🛠️ Admins & Coordinators

Help with chat, reports, and moderation
Don't vote in LT system unless promoted to SA
SA slots are nearly full (see “Crown Clutter” on my profile)
Promotions & bonus points possible later

🧾 Backups & Safety

This system & scoreboard are saved on my profile
Post key stuff in chat too (votes, ideas, supports)
✅ Coordinators+ can see deleted chat, so info isn’t lost

Thanks again for reading! Ask before Aug 19 @ 5:00 AM UTC-0 if you’re unsure about anything.
– Owner: TheRateClimber

Official Scoreboard (For the LT system) 🏆

Labels to Meaning and Leadership Tokens Key:

Uniqueness - having unique attribute; you are the first to do something or have uniquely and positively impacted the club or my chess experience (x2 LTs)

Use of Feature - You are the first person to use part of the club rules to your advantage. Yes, for some reason, I like people that acknowledge my rules. 15 LTs

Profile reference - put my name under your friends list or even best friends list, basically free points, but only one did it so far and that is Astro_Pup. 10 LTs

2nd Owner - the person that gave me the original idea for this club (only 1 person and that is DAKIIIINGGGG) 50 LTs

Game - you get 5 LTs for each game you play with me (I’m not counting variants because that is too much work, but if you have a way to prove to me that we have played a lot of variant games before, you can DM me).

Playful - This one is for a very nice or/and skilled player that I have interacted with. Yes, I know, this is subjective, but I will still give this one a 20 LTs.

Hyperactive - This is only for the SA’s currently super active in my club (I have to notice some change in the club in order for you to get it) or played with me recently. After I’m inactive, this label becomes permanent and can’t be removed (even when requested)). x10 LTs

Bonus - responded to my announcement and/or forums (10 LTs).

Inactive - If you are inactive, meaning that you don’t visit the club often (so you are considered inactive even if you visit the chess.com website everyday); you get x0 LTs, you can request to change this anytime, if you are willing to visit my club often and be active again. I’m doing this just to be fair.

The Actual Scores/# of LTs for each SA

Active SA’s (According to Me)

👑 agentspeedyman - (7 (Rounds of) x 5 LTs (Game) + 20 LTs (Playful) + 10 LTs (Bonus - for responding to this announcement) ) x10 (Hyperactive) = 650 LTs.

DAKIIIINGGGG - 50 LTs (2nd Owner) x2 (Uniqueness - you are the first and only one to give me club ideas) + 2 (Rounds of) x 5 LTs (Game) = 110 LTs

Shlok10009 - 15 LTs (Use of Feature - Mutual Leadership) + 15 LTs (Use of Feature - Advertisement) + 10 LTs (Bonus - for posting this announcement to help my club out) x2 (Uniqueness - for posting the first announcement that is not by me) + 3 (Round of) x 5 LTs (Game) = 65 LTs

AdiReshiram - 2 (Rounds of) x 5 LTs (Game) + 15 LTs (Use of Feature - Mutual Leadership) x2 (Uniqueness - I’m the only other Super Admin in your club at the time of inputting this; I won’t take this away if you do promote another SA) + 10 LTs (Bonus - for responding to this forum) = 50 LTs

KyivChessMaster - 1 (Round of) x 5LTs (Game) + 15 LTs (Use of Feature - Mutual Leadership) + 20 LTs (Playful - very enthusiastic about chess and chats) = 40 LTs

Below_Freezing - (2 (Round of) x 5 LTs (Game) + 15 LTs (Use of Feature - Mutual Leadership)) = 25 LTs.

Inactive SA’s (According to Me)

Note: all SA’s listed have Inactive label resulting 0LTs, but I still included what they would of gotten if it was not for the Inactive label (they can DM before Aug 19 @ 5:00 AM UTC-0 to recieve a guaranteed change).

2ANISHGIRI2 - (15 LTs (Use of Feature - Mutual Leadership) x2 (Uniqueness - first one to promote me to an SA in your own club) x2 (Uniqueness - first one to promote me to a big club (51 members))) x0 (Inactive) = 0 LTs (You would have gotten 60 LTs if you were not inactive).

Astro_Pup - (14 (Rounds of) x 5 LTs (Game) + 15 LTs (Use of Feature - Mutual Leadership) x 2(Uniqueness - you are the first one to use Mutual Leadership) + 10 LTs (Profile reference) x2 (Uniqueness for first one referencing my name on your profile) + 20LTs (Playful)) x0 (Inactive) = 0 LTs (You would have gotten 140 LTs if you were not inactive)

JuanEgg - (73 (Rounds of) x 5 LTs (Game) + 20 LTs (Playful) x2 (Uniqueness - You were the first one to send kind and caring messages to me)) x0 (Inactive) = 0 LTs (You would have gotten 405 LTs if you were not inactive).

⚠️VERY IMPORTANT: I won’t make any guaranteed changes after Aug 19 @ 5:00 AM UTC-0 even if requested. So, even if I made a mistake, I won’t guarantee a change. However, I carefully did these, so it (at least the math part) should be accurate.

Below is just part of my personal profile (not a lot), so it’s not part of the club rules if you are reading my profile as the rulebook for my club.

My favorite songs (I love Kung Fu Panda very much as you can tell):

Kung Fu Panda 3 ["TRY" Official Theme Song Music Video in HD (1080p)]

Kung Fu Panda - Oogway Ascends (arrangement)

04.Kung Fu Panda (Oogway ascends) Hollywood in Vienna 2018

A LITTLE THEORIZING | Official Game Theory Song!

When 2 songs are meant for each other

There are zombies on your lawn

Thank you for reading everything on my profile. 🙂