Gameplay
Learn how to start games, join tournaments, track your stats, enable vacation time, and customize your play.
85 articles
- How do I start a game on Chess.com?
- How do time controls work on Chess.com?
- How do I make moves in Live Chess?
- How do I play an unrated game?
- How can I choose my color?
- How do I play an odds game?
- How do I manage my Live Chess settings?
- What are pre-moves and how do they work?
- How do I turn on/off the legal moves dots on the board?
- What is auto-queen, and how do I enable it?
- How do I turn on or off Timestamps?
- How do I change my board size?
- What is focus mode? How do I turn it on?
- Can I play on Chess.com without an account?
- How can I make an animated GIF of my game?
- What are the board animations on Chess.com?
- Can I play with a smart board on Chess.com?
- How do I resign a game on Chess.com?
- How can I play a game from a custom position?
- How can I draw arrows on the board like streamers do?
- How can I see the captured pieces and material count?
- How do I host a simul and play multiple games at once?
- What are thematic games?
- How do I get a PGN of my game?
- How do I view my own games?
- How can I add comments and variations to games?
- How do I make moves using my voice?
- How do I change piece animations?
- How do live tournaments work? Where can I join one?
- I'm late for the tournament! Can I still join?
- How do I withdraw from a tournament?
- When do tournament games start? What if my opponent doesn't move?
- How can I create a Live (Blitz, Bullet, Rapid) Tournament?
- How do I cancel a tournament I created?
- How do I invite people to my Daily tournament?
- How do I invite people to my Live tournament?
- How do Daily Tournaments work on Chess.com?
- Who is allowed to join Daily tournaments?
- How do I create a Daily tournament?
- What is a Swiss tournament?
- What are Arena tournaments?
- How does a Round-Robin Knock-Out tournament work?
- How do No-Vacation tournaments work?
- What are tournament leaderboard points?
- How do ties in tournaments work?
- How do I see my tournament stats and past tournaments?
- How do I join a Bughouse tournament on Chess.com?
- What is a 'bye' in a tournament?
- What are timeouts? Why can't I play in tournaments because of them?
- What are Thematic tournaments?
- How can I see events and tournaments?
- Chess.com tournaments schedule
- I joined a team match but then wasn't chosen to play - why not?
- How is seeding and group placement determined in multi-group tournaments?
- How do membership levels (free vs premium) affect access to daily tournaments?
- Why can't I join an event?
- What is Daily Chess?
- How do I manage my Daily Chess settings?
- How do I make conditional moves?
- How does vacation work? How much time do I get?
- How do I turn on/off my vacation status?
- How much vacation does my opponent have?
- What is the difference between "vacation" and the "unavailable" setting?
- How do I cancel a Daily Challenge I sent?
- How do ratings work on Chess.com?
- Why are there different ratings in live chess?
- How can I disable the rating range on Chess.com?
- The game ended and my rating didn't change at all. Why?
- How many points do I get for winning? How do I know?
- What is the Players League?
- I just won a game. Why didn't I get any league trophies?
- What are leaderboards?
- What does my Stats page show?
- How can I reset my stats?
- How can I see my opening stats?
- What does 'percentile' mean?
- How is average time per move calculated?
- What is my best win? How is it measured?
- How do I use Advanced Stats?
- Why are my ratings so different across Rapid, Blitz, and Bullet?