Vote Chess Games

Vote Chess is a team based game where the members of the club can discuss the move order and the best move to be made in the opening, middle game and endgame.

How to play out a continuation of a current position?

Click on the magnifying glass, you should find it on the bottom of the moves where you have other options as well like ‘ Draw ‘ - ‘ Resign ‘ , X = Withdraw from game, the arrow pointing down into a box gives you access to the FEN among other things, the one next to this is the share function.

Once you clicked the magnifying glass you can start making moves for both sides, this is great as you can play out a line before discussing the move in comments. It’s the same with daily chess games, if you are familiar with daily chess you should manage this option in vote chess as well.

How to create a line (Diagram) and share it with the team?

If you used the magnifying glass to find the right moves you should exit out of it before Clicking on the arrow that points downward into a box. What you want is the FEN code.

Here is a step by step guide on how to create and share a line (Diagram);

Click on the arrow pointing downward into a box and copy the entire FEN code then exit out of the window.
Select Menu and click on More
Click on Library
Scroll down to Quick links and select Analysis
Once you clicked on Analysis you get to the page where you can create a new analysis, bookmark this page as you will need it for later.
Click on ‘New Analysis’ and scroll down until you see ‘Load from FEN/PGN(s)
Paste in the FEN code where it says ‘Paste one or more PGNs, or drag & drop your PGN file here’.
After pasting in the FEN code click on ‘Add Game(s)’
Deactivate ‘Evaluation’ and also ‘Lines’, you don’t want these to be activated as it would be cheating.
If we are playing as black you want to click on the ‘Flip board’ before proceeding.

You should now have visual on our current game with our current position, now play out the continuation of your analysis beforehand.

When you are done with your line (Diagram/Move order) click on the share button to your far right on the bottom.

Select ‘Embed’ and double tap or double click on the blank image and select copy.. once copied go back to your vote chess window and double tap in the comments and paste the image in there. When it’s pasted you can Post your comment and your fellow team can view your line from the current position.

OBS!!! If you make a mistake while playing out a line in Analysis you need to go back to the main page of ‘New analysis’ and start over again.

This method of sharing a line or a move order could help your team to make a decision on whether your first move should be played or not.

How do I know what to vote for?

A team Captain will read through the comment section and evaluate what moves have been discussed as valid or invalid moves.

It is the team captain who will tell you what should be voted for. In some cases there could also be an open vote call as there are 2 or more moves that are good. In that case the vote that has the majority votes will win.

Vote calls should be made within 24 hours remaining time if we are playing a 3 days game.

If we play a 24 hour game the vote call should be made when there’s 15 hours or less remaining time left.

It’s important that vote chess games are organized and that the members of the club discuss what moves should be made, you don’t want random votes or an inactive club that loses on time.

- Tony ( Team Vote Chess Captain )

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