![]() ![]() We received 11,383 member responses, 166 titled-player responses, and 61 responses from top players. We believe that our members should have a voice in how we handle cheating in chess, and in an effort to understand the community's sentiments better, we shared a fair play survey with three groups: members, titled players, and top players (the top 100 players overall as well as the top 20 women players by FIDE rating). We may not make the place clean overnight, but by coming to the point of normal checking- we surely can make it safe day by day.Įnsuring fair play and protecting the integrity of the game is a priority for. You won’t believe how many reports our team gets regarding breaking the fair play rules. It’s about the game and the environment others are playing in. They often take our words (my assumption) negatively thinking that our team thinks of the player as a bad person, literally! I can assure you that it’s not about YOU. So, some of the players start panicking after getting a call from the proctors. Not every one of us is tech-savvy, we did notice some of the players not having enough skills to operate their playing devices except for making the moves. This makes me come to the next point quickly. Failure to join on request may result in disqualification from the tournament. ![]() Once you join ZOOM, you have to perform all the tasks abovementioned. We ask the player to do a quick Room Sweep with the device’s camera or the second camera he/she added.We ask the player to Add a Second Camera (it can be a mobile phone!).We ask the player to show the Task Manager.We ask the player to Share the Screen he is playing on.We do provide the ZOOM Link and the password of course. So, once you sign up for the event, you do have to check your textbox, at any point of the event, you may get a call from us. Once you sign up, the Proctor from Fair Play Team may reach out and text you via messages, it’s the only medium we use for Titled Tuesday. You have a title means you can sign up for the event. Titled Tuesday is the most popular event to play among other events since it doesn’t require any additional criteria. For a full listing of the measures, we will take to both monitor your play on and enforce our Fair Play Policy, see the Termination and Account Limitations sections of our User Agreement. All account status changes are made in our sole discretion. WARNING: If we determine that you have violated our Fair Play Policy, then we will close your account and label it closed for a Fair Play violation. We may expand or narrow any applicable exceptions to the Fair Play Policy at any time without notice to you. However, if you intend to use assistance against your opponent, you must notify them beforehand. If you suspect someone is cheating, report the player to .ĮXCEPTION: These rules do not apply to unrated games or tactics. Suspecting your opponent of using outside help is not an excuse to do the same.Do not interfere with the gameplay of other members.Do not artificially manipulate ratings, matches, or game outcomes.Do not allow anyone else to use your account.Do not perform any automated analysis or “blunder checking” of your games in progress.You may use Opening Explorer or other books without engine evaluations in Daily chess only (not in Online / Live play).Do not use tablebases or any other resources that show the best move (in both Online and Daily chess).Do not use chess engines, software of any kind, bots, plugins or any tools that analyze positions during play.Do not get help from any other person, including parents, friends, coaches or another player.Please see our User Agreement for more information regarding the applicability and enforcement of the Fair Play Policy. We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time without notice to you. We reserve the right to monitor all chess games played on our platform. Artist : Charles Davis Mitchell, 1887 - 1940 has a responsibility to maintain a clean, fair platform for chess players around the world. Let me pull that up for you again, it’s a little revision we’ll do now. Artist : Sir John Lavery 1856–1941 For this blog, I will try to give an image of what we do and I will be using TITLED TUESDAY as an example.īefore that, you all know has a Fair Play Policy which I assume every one of you has read. But it’s not only on us to keep the environment cool and smooth, but also a humane responsibility to all the participants out there, it’s for the sake of the game per se. Early Titled Tuesday, Late Titled Tuesday, Chessable Masters, Pro Chess League, and so on, you name it! As a FAIR PLAY PROCTOR, we do monitor the events and take action accordingly. Almost every one of you is participating in those events. There are tons of online events going on every now and then.
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