Rules and opportunities of the Club.

1. Unworthy behavior like insulting an opponent or spectators, tips or other discourteous actions may lead to expelling from the Club.

2. Players exposed in using the playing computer software shall be evicted from the Club. Administration reserves a right to evict such players by decision of assembly of administrators, as well as to modify the final results of tournaments and distribution of prizes.

3. To avoid any conflicts, we recommend to avoid discussing erotic, racial, ethnic and religious points.

4. Do not send into the chat large informational blocks and advertisements without first consulting the administrator.

5. If your opponent avoids continuing the adjourned game, then you have a right to appeal to the administrator, who will oblige the opponent to finish the adjourned game.

6. Using the chess playing software in tournaments and simultans is prohibited. Administrators are sufficiently competent to detect such cases and have a right to punish such players (up to canceling the player's registration).

7. Any kinds of advertising are prohibited without preliminary co-ordination with the Club's administration (written or in conversation with administrator).

Advantages of the Russian portal against the leading world playing portals like ICC:

• A flexible adjustment of board's size and placement is possible, as well as one of the other control elements on the screen (clocks, chessboard, notation windows for communication, windows for analysis, etc.).
• When watching the other players' game, it is possible to call the playing program for the analysis hidden from the payers.
• You can analyze a finished game together with the opponent in a real-time mode. Other players may also participate in such an analysis. Every player present may suggest variations visible for the other participants of the analysis and start the playing program.
• An unique mail service allows you to send chess information easily to other portal users.
• An original mode of lesson\lecture has been developed. The pupils see everything what a lector demonstrates (moves, variations, text); they also may ask questions, suggest variations and discuss theme of a lecture in a comfortable manner.
• The tournaments are conducted in an automatic mode, both Swiss and round robin ones. Pairing and cross tables are refreshed synchronously.
• All the played games are available for search and viewing in a server database. Comfortable search of players is available.
• You can enter new games of fragments from a custom starting position, annotate them, save the games of other players of your choice into your own library, easily send the games and fragments to the other users of portal.