New accounts open with R1000 in virtual credit. No real money is accepted or paid out.
The name opponents see. 3 to 16 characters, starting with a letter.
Used to sign in. Never shown to other players.
Every balance on this platform is virtual credit. No real money is accepted, held, or paid out, and credit cannot be withdrawn. New accounts open with R1000 in credit; an administrator can issue more.
Each table has a fixed stake. When you join a table that stake leaves your balance at once and is held in escrow, belonging to neither player while the game runs. If no opponent is found the hold expires and your credit returns.
You are paired with another player waiting at the same table. Pairing begins with players close to your rating and widens the longer you wait.
Games run on Lichess's open-source server, which is the sole authority on legality, the clock, and the result. We do not adjudicate chess.
Each table shows its fees before you join.
Ratings are Glicko-2, calculated by Lichess, starting at 1500. A rating marked ? is provisional: too few games for it to be reliable. Very short or very fast games may go unrated, because Lichess declines to rate games that fit the shape of rating manipulation.
Fair play is enforced by Lichess's own system, not by us. Lichess declines to rate games that fit the shape of rating manipulation, and its cheat-detection tooling assesses games using engine analysis and move-time behaviour. We act on what it reports: we may restrict staking on an account, void a game, or reverse credit obtained through collusion or engine assistance.
The moves, the clock behind every move, the result, and every credit movement are recorded and kept for each game. You can review any of your own games from the Games page.
Administrators can issue credit, void games, and restrict accounts. Every such action is written to an audit log with the administrator, the reason, and the time.
This is a test deployment operating on virtual credit. It is not a licensed gambling service and nothing here is an offer of one.
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