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	Basic	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
Free Chess Mentor Membership Time Premium Members get FREE Chess Mentor time (normally $12.95 a month or $99.95 per year)! Those who already subscribe to Chess Mentor receive a 5-15% discount! Click here to try Chess Mentor for FREE! Chess Mentor Online Training	-	-	-	Unlimited
Computer Analysis Do you wonder why you lost a game? What were your critical mistakes and what winning moves did you miss? Our super-computers analyze your game and give you a fully-annotated report! Grandmaster-level computer game analysis Full notation on mistakes and blunders Computer Analysis of Your Games	1 /week	2 /week	25 /week	100 /week
Game Explorer Search your games, your opponents' games, or millions of master chess games to see what openings are being playing with full win/draw/loss statistics! Or, look through a database of standard openings and discuss the opening with other Chess.com members. access to millions of Master+ games also search through all games from Chess.com ability to save your favorite openings/positions Platinum and Diamond Members have unlimited access. Gold Members have unlimited access to the Master+ Games and their own games, but limited access to other members' games. Basic Members are limited in their searches and cannot search their own games. Click here to check out the Game Explorer! Openings & Game Explorer	Minimal	Most	Unlimited	Unlimited
Tactics Trainer "Chess is 99% tactics!" Hone your tactics skills by spending time going through thousands and thousands of tactical positions where you are challenged to find the best moves! track your "Tactics Rating" over time see full computer analysis of the moves comment on tactics with other players Platinum/Diamond Members have unlimited access. Gold Members are limited to 25 problems per day. Basic Members are limited to 3 problems per day. Click here to check out the Tactics Trainer! Tactics Trainer	3 /day	25 /day	Unlimited	Unlimited
Chess.com Online Tournaments Compete in Official Chess.com site-wide tournaments or smaller round-robin tournaments. Premium Members can play in more tournaments and they can run bigger tournaments with more players, more options, and more total tournaments! Click here to see Chess.com Tournaments! Tournaments	1 /time	10 /time	Unlimited	Unlimited
Performance Stats Check out rating and statistics for Turn-based and Live Chess! Premium Members can view graphs on rating, wins/losses, ranking, best wins, worst loss, and other stats including performance against other individual players. Basic members get rating, win/loss/draw, and time per move. Performance Stats	Minimal	Full (self)	Full (all members)	Full (all members)
Vacation Time Premium Members get more vacation days each year and a higher total vacation cap! Click here to read more about how Vacation Time works. Vacation Time	Max 30 Days	Max 60 Days	Max 90 Days	Max 90 Days
Chess.com Mobile Chess Play Chess.com games on your mobile phone - most phones are supported! play your turn-based games on your phone easy to download and install more features coming soon! Basic Members can make 3 moves per day. Gold Members can make 25 moves per day. Platinum and Diamond Members can make unlimited moves. Click here to see more about Chess.com Mobile!* Mobile Chess	3 moves/day	25 moves/day	Unlimited	Unlimited
Computer Workout The Chess.com Computer Workout tool helps you improve your knowledge of key chess positions by setting you up to play them against the computer! Premium Members have access to ALL key chess positions. Basic members have access to a sample set of positions. Click here to start a Computer Workout! Computer Workout	Limited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Games Archive Chess.com stores all of your games (Online Turn-based and Live) so you can download or access them at any time. Premium Members have access to ALL games ever played on Chess.com. Basic members have access to all games played within the last 30 days. Keep in my mind, we never delete games, so once you subscribe, you will have access to all your old games once again! Click here to view your Game Archive! Games Archive	30 days	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Auto-Timeout Protection Premium Members get auto-timeout protection! If you are about to lose an Online (Turn-based) Chess game because of timeout you will automatically get put "on vacation". This can save you from silly losses and lost rating points due to timeouts! Auto-Timeout Protection	-
No Ads!! Premium Members will not see any external ads on Chess.com (other than the main homepage) and will see very few internal ads (announcing new products and services). Basic members will see all ads, but we don't ever do popups! No Ads!	-
Vote Chess Vote Chess let's groups of players play against each other by voting for the best move! On Chess.com you either play against another random group of Chess.com Members, or everyone on Chess.com gets to play against a Master+ rated player! Premium Members will have access to some special exhibition games (such as Chess.com vs. Grandmaster!) that Basic members may not be able to play in. Click here to check out Vote Chess! Vote Chess	Most Games	All Games	All Games	All Games
Groups & Teams Become a part of a smaller group within Chess.com! Example groups/teams are those from certain countries or special interests, or just a group of friends! Groups get their own private forum, news, events, photos, and more. Group admins can customize just about every aspect of the group including who can join! Basic members can join groups but cannot manage them. Click here to view Groups! Groups & Teams	Join only	Create & Manage	Create & Manage	Create & Manage
Chess.com Email Get a "YOURNAME@chess.com" email address to show how much you love chess. And it is such a cool email address! In comparison, @yahoo @msn @gmail just seem silly :) All members get FREE webmail! Premium members get additional storage and POPmail access (for use with Outlook, Gmail, etc). Create your @chess.com email address now! Chess.com Email	250MB Webmail	500MB + POPmail	2GB + POPmail	2GB + POPmail
Design Theme Customization Want to change the way Chess.com looks or create a cool page that others can see when viewing your profile? You can customize 95% of the way Chess.com looks including the logo, font, background image, colors, etc! Basic members are limited to one theme. Click here to change your theme! Design Theme Customization	1 theme	5 themes	Unlimited	Unlimited
Faster Page Loading Time Premium Members get better site performance and faster page loading times. This comes from not having to load the code associated with showing ads. Faster Page Loading Times	-
Interactive Maps Premium Members get access to interactive Google maps that show global locations for Chess.com members, guests, your opponents, titled players, events, clubs, and more! Basic members can only see their own location and guests. Click here to view the Interactive Maps! Interactive Maps	-
Special Icon by Name As a Premium Member you will get a special icon next to your name that will show up on your profile page, in your comments, when you are playing, and just about everywhere else! Gold Member Platinum Member Diamond Member Beginning in 2009 icons will also show the number of years you have been a subscriber! Special Icon by Name	-
Fully Customize your Profile Page! As a Premium Member you can add just about anything you want to your profile page including more photos, links, videos, replayable chess games, etc! Now you can show people more about who you are! Photos/Games/Videos on Profile	-
Private Premium Forums Premium Members get access to private forums which help to filter out some potential immaturity in the public forums. The GOLD forum is for all Premium Members, while the PLATINUM forum is for Platinum/Diamond members only. Private Premium Forums	-
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