How does Vacation work? How much time do I get?

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How does Vacation work? How much time do I get?
Sometimes, life demands that you put your favorite things on hold for a while. Chess.com understands this, and gives all members the ability to pause their Online Chess games using an allotment of Vacation time. To activate Vacation: From your online chess home-page, you can always select the "Settings" link to be taken here: http://www.chess.com/home/echess_settings.html Now, scroll down to see the Vacation section: To put yourself ON vacation, check the "PAUSE MY GAMES!" box. Of course, simply uncheck it when you're ready to play again. (You will be unable to make moves as long as you are on vacation.) If you want more details about vacation, you can also click on the "What is vacation time?" link shown to the right of that page. When you go on vacation, you may wish to enter something in the "Message for opponents" field; this will update your status, which is displayed on all of your games until your vacation ends. The text in red shows how much vacation time you have remaining. Please note that each vacation consumes a minimum of 24 hours of your remaining vacation budget. It is very important you remember to click the "Save Preferences" button at the bottom of that page before closing or leaving this page! How much time do you get? All new Chess.com accounts start out with 7 days of vacation time. All members then accrue an additional 2 vacation days per month: one on the 1st, & one on the 15th. Vacation time is capped at a certain maximum so that you can't keep accumulating vacation time forever. Your maximum allowable vacation time depends on your membership level: Basic Members: 30 days Gold Members: 60 days Platinum/Diamond: 90 days (Note also that all premium members enjoy "auto-timeout protection," meaning that their vacation (assuming they have any left) will be automatically enabled if they are at risk of losing any of their games on time.) The One-Day Minimum It's important not to expend vacation time frivolously or abusively. To discourage these behaviors, we have implemented a one-day minimum on vacation length: All vacation times will be consume a minimum of 24 hours. Example 1: If you are only on vacation for 5 minutes, 24 hours will be deducted from your remaining vacation time. Example 2: If you are on vacation for 23 hours, 24 hours will be deducted. Example 3: If you are on vacation for 25 hours, then it is 25 hours (not 48) that will be consumed. keywords: vacation online chess break pause emergency
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