Play or Organize Online Prized Chess Tournaments with thechessforum.com. We are providing a secure payment system with PayPal and Stripe for receiving entry fees and sending prize money to chess players.
The chess players can play prized chess tournaments with a minimum range of $1. The purpose of this fun activity is to motivate amateur and club, chess players.
Why choose Thechessforum.com’s platform for Prized Online Chess Tournaments?
The purpose of creating Thechessforum.com is to help amateurs and beginners to reach at least 2000 elo.
With our platform, you can learn chess for free and you can ask any question regarding chess for free at (Ask a Question ). With this aim in mind, we are organizing a prized chess tournament for amateurs and beginners with a minimum entry fee of $1.
Here are 3 more reasons to join thechessforum.com.
- Professional: The moderators of TheChessForum.com are highly responsive and handle rule violations in a fair and efficient manner.
- Affordable: TheChessForum.com hosts frequent tournaments with low entry fees, allowing players to compete without breaking the bank.
- Perfection: TheChessForum.com’s dedication to perfection is evident in its commitment to educational, and enjoyable experiences for all its users.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our Online Prized Chess Tournaments follow general rules and guidelines. Here are some questions that you may want to ask before entering an online chess tournament.
What will be the entry fee for an online prized chess tournament?
Our aim is to encourage amateurs and beginners to improve their chess, for ease of players right now we are organizing all tournaments with $1, $3, and $5 entry fees. Which is affordable to all chess players. If you want to organize an online prized chess tournament with different price ranges you can fill Organizer’s Form.
What are the prizes for winning an online prized chess tournament?
Our goal is to engage more and more chess players and enthusiasts, that’s why we will try to give more prizes than the top 3 positions, it will depend on the participants of the tournament. Here is an example of prizes.
1-10 (Top 3 positions)
10-20 (Top 5 positions)
20-50 (Top 10 positions)
50-100 (Top 20 positions).
In conclusion, We will distribute 80% percent of collected entries to chess players. The 10% will be shared with the Organizers/Affiliates of the tournament, and 10% (Including Taxes and Other Expenses) will be shared with the Admin/Moderators/Team Members of this website.
What are the technical requirements for participating in an online prized chess tournament?
- You must have Lichess.org Id and Chess.com Id.
- You must have your Original Name on your ids.
- Each tournament’s duration will be 30 minutes.
- All the general rules will be applied through lichess.org or chess.com.
- TITLED PLAYERS CAN NOT PARTICIPATE IN THIS TOURNAMENT.
- PLAYERS ABOVE 2200 RATING IN ANY FORMAT CAN NOT JOIN/PLAY THE TOURNAMENT.
How is cheating prevented in online prized chess tournaments?
There are many algorithms that we will try to prevent cheating in online chess tournaments.
For Example:
1. All players will play only a 3-minute chess game.
2. All Position Holder’s games will be double-checked by our team and after verification, the prize money will be issued.
3. If a player cheats, or violates the rules, then we will make sure that he will be banned from lichess.org and from chess.com and his reports will be sent to the FIDE for appropriate action.
4. Each Tournament will be held among 100 players and we may ask each player to install Zoom video and audio, it will depend on the organizer of the tournament whether he wants to use Zoom or not.
5. If you still feel while playing that someone is cheating, you can report it to: play@thechessforum.com, and we will reply ASAP.
How to Join the Tournament?
Our Online entry submission system is very simple. There are two steps for joining online prized chess tournament.
1: Submit your entry via the provided link in the tournament’s detail.
2:After submission of the entry fee, you will be given a questionnaire form which you have to fill out. The form contains basic information like name, lichess.org Id, chess.com Id, Fide Id, Active email address, PayPal’s email address for sending prize money, etc.
That’s all.
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