Hey Pineapples!🍍🍍

There are certain rules which all members of this club have to follow. If they don't they will be either warned or punished. They are:

1. No spamming, advertising, swearing, trolling, or typing unnecessary things.

If you do, you will be muted for how much ever time our admins decide to.

You shouldn't spam in the chat, which means repeating the same thing you type multiple times.

Advertising isn't allowed, not even in our forum. This is to keep our forum and notes neat and tidy. Or worse, clickbait (for example, if you want more views for your YouTube video, you might advertise with an intriguing description, for example, "I beat Carlsen in blitz! Recorded on YouTube! Link: XXX" and actually you might have just beat a 1500)

Please do not swear or be rude to other members of the club. Doing so will lead to fights.

Do not type unnecessary things. Only type it if you think at least some of the members of the club will be interested in it. For example, typing political or religious things will not be necessary. But this doesn't mean that you aren't allowed to speak about non-chess-related things, like cricket.

2. No cheating, playing too badly, or having too many timeouts.

If you do, you will be temporarily banned from playing club matches and tournaments. Even then if you play matches and tournaments, then you will be banned from the club. If you were cheating, then you will be immediately banned from the club and reported to chess.com staff.

Never cheat. It spoils the experience for other players and for yourself too. If you lose, it doesn't matter - it's only a game - but use your head and not your engine.

Always try to play the best move. Sometimes players just decrease their rating on purpose to play in lower rating category tournaments (for example if the sandbagger has a rating of 1600 and wants to play a >1500 tournament) by resigning for no reason or just playing stupidly.

Please don't lose daily matches on timeouts. Many team matches are being lost because of timeouts. It spoils the club wins and in the end, the club loses due to the timeouts.

3. Admins must be good admins.

If you aren't a good admin, then you will be demoted to a coordinator.

Admins must do their best to make this club a fun, friendly, and safe place. They must respect each other and are expected to set an example for the rest of the members. An admin should not do anything they wouldn't want a member to do. If an admin is found guilty of infringement of this rule, they are to be given a warning. If it happens regularly, they are subject to demotion to a coordinator by a vote from the rest of the admin team. The admin team is called a team for a reason. So all admins have to help the club together.

Of course, all these rules have some rare exceptions, and the decision is in the hands of the admins.

Thanks for reading, and please follow these rules to help this club become a better place!

Chess Pineapples HQ

Super Admins

Admins