Serious Players' Vote Chess Club

In the spring of 2025, a few of us came together as part of the World team taking on Magnus Carlsen in a vote chess game (freestyle format) on  Chess.com. The team chat was disorganized and chaotic, so @ateneafernandez created a Discord server to bring some structure to the madness. That Discord team became the core group organizing analysis, discussing lines, and rallying players to help secure a historic draw for the World Team against one of the greatest players of all time.

What we loved was the collaborative analysis and the excitement of recommending moves as a team. What we didn’t love was desperately trying to prevent blunders from being voted through. We talked about starting a vote chess club back then, but we probably spent a little too long savoring the draw against Magnus.

After seeing the success of the Discord server, Chess.com invited us to serve as World Team Admins on their official Discord server for the World game against GothamChess in the fall of 2025. Despite our best efforts, the World eventually blundered away the position, and that experience finally pushed us to revisit the idea of creating a dedicated vote chess club. That’s how Serious Players’ Vote Chess Club (SPVCC) was born.

By design, SPVCC is meant to remain a small, close-knit community of players who enjoy discussing and analyzing moves before voting. We play vote chess (both standard and freestyle) exclusively and have recently shifted our focus more toward competitive matches rather than friendly games.

We’re proud to remain undefeated in vote chess so far, with two draws — one of which came after our opponent was targeted by fake voters, a situation that was resolved fairly through good sportsmanship.

If you’d like to join, let us know what draws you to the club and what you hope to gain from being part of it.