last edited: January 10, 2021

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A new house (temp topic)

Ramon's new house (photos)

Team Matches

Team Match leagues: TMCL | TMCL960 | 1WL | S17 | KOTML

Daily Matches: Open | In Progress | Completed | All

Live Matches: TGP live matches

Leagues we compete in

List of leagues TGP has joined. Schedule of the team match leagues.

Rules of the leagues we compete in

Rules of the leagues TGP has joined, copied into one place. Schedule of the vote chess leagues.

Do NOT Disturb list

Players who shouldn't be messaged to join team matches (for various reasons).
Note: A similar list for VC isn't needed because we have a more general VC blacklist.

TGP Live Matches (blitz, rapid & bullet)

Coordination of live events (team matches & internal tournaments).

TMCL A2 Matches and Score

Table of match results for TMCL 2020 div. A2 (i.e. our division).

TEAM CHESS Championship

A discussion about a new league and whether TGP should join (by Jan and Theo).
Only 5 boards per match; we decided to decline.

Tournaments & Golden Ladder

Live Tournaments: TGP live tournaments

Tournaments

Tournaments for TGP members.

Club Championships

Information about internal TGP Championship tournaments.

Tournaments for recruitment purposes

Tournaments primarily as a source of new team members. Current members also invited.

TGP Live Matches (blitz, rapid & bullet)

Coordination of live events (team matches & internal tournaments).

Golden Ladder links

Links to Golden Ladder pages (by Ramon). Discussion.

Golden Ladder links [main group]

The summary page for Golden Ladder with all important links.

Golden Ladder participants [main group]

Players participating in the Open and U16 divisions of Golden Ladder.

Vote Chess

Vote Chess leagues: 1WL | DL | KOVCL

Vote Chess games: In Progress | Finished | All

Vote Chess CHAT

Vote call templates. Discussion about Vote Chess matters.

New Guidelines for Vote Chess

Design and discussion of the new guidelines for Vote Chess (by Jan).

Vote Chess blacklist

Personas non gratas for our VC games. Includes non-members of TGP.

Vote Chess INFO [main group]

Pretty much all the information about TGP Vote Chess for our members.

Vote Chess Guidelines [main group]

General guidelines for Vote Chess games (by Zoltán).

Recruitment/New Members

Recruiting Guidelines

General recruiting requirements for potential new members (by Theo).
Blind recruiting requirements for potential new members (by Mike).

Recruitment blacklist

Do not invite players from this list to TGP.

Invitation Pro-forma

Invitation letter; to be sent to players we want to invite to the club.

Invitation Pro-forma: High Raters

Invitation letter; to be sent to high-rated players we want to invite to the club.

Welcome Letter

Welcome letter; to be sent to new members of the club when they join.

Recruiting techniques

Avoiding double invites and trying to be efficient.
Practical system - please do share your own.

PM to Applicants who don't, "Qualify"

Refusal letter; to be sent to players who wish to enter TGP but don't meet our requirements.

Reciprocal Recruiting with Total 960

Proposal for reciprocal recruiting with the Total 960 club (by Theo).

TGP recruitment candidates

Sources for new TGP members. Lists of players for "blind recruiting".

Potential Invitees - Links to tournaments

Links to tournaments, which could be used as a source of new TGP members.

How to find a recruiting admin

Discussion about finding a recruiting headmaster for TGP.

New recruiting plan.. post-Mike

Recruiting with the help of Simon's scripts after Mike's departure.

Group Management

Main group: The Golden Phoenix

Members: Newest | Highest-rated | Closed | Banned

File Sharing (by Ramon)

Admin Roles

Responsibilities and roles of each of the TGP admins.

Admin responsibilities summary guide

Admin Characteristics and Responsibilities via VKJ of Chess.com Admin Group.

"Ownership"

Discussion about the ownership of the club.

Club Size

What is the target number of members of our club?

Club Goals

What amount of activity do we expect from our members?

Group standings

Our team matches and vote chess standings. Links to the Chess.com TM and VC leaderboards.

Timeout Letters

Letters to be sent to players who timed out in one or more games for TGP. Several variants of the letters (by Theo).

Close [longterm] friends in the team

Close friends to the admins of TGP. Careful if you want to boot them!

Pruning - serious pruning

Discussion about large-scale removal of inactive players. News drafts.
Pictures of roses to be pruned.

"Awards"

Awarding players with club trophies for their successes (by Bill).

Club guidelines & policies

Guidelines for TGP members. TGP club policies.

Club Guidelines [main group]

Guidelines for TGP members. Chess.com community policies.

Top Players [main group]

Players who scored the most points for TGP.

Screenshots

Screenshots of anything useful, which might get lost otherwise.
In case you must delete anything and you are able to make a screenshot, put it here for traceability.

Cleansing of the TGP forums

Proposals for deletion of old/abandoned threads in TGP forums (main group & HQ). Discussion.

FPV Prevention Programme

Cheating with chess engine use: hunting tools and tips

Explanation of techniques to recognise and invistigate players suspected from engine usage (by Giles).

Players At High Risk For FPV Boot

Players who pose a high risk of account closere due to likely FPV.
PGN Spy results of those players. Other proofs and materials.

Cheaters whose account hasn't been closed yet...

... and how we should deal with them.
Discussion about the best approach to keep TGP clean of potential engine users.

Dishonour Board [main group]

Former TGP members whose accounts have been closed for Fair Play Violations.

Graphics

Graphics Usable for various (e.g. News)

Pictures and photos with phoenix-related themes.

Pruning - serious pruning

Discussion about large-scale removal of inactive players. News drafts.
Pictures of roses to be pruned.

Various Lists of Players

Close [longterm] friends in the team

Close friends to the admins of TGP. Careful if you want to boot them!

Vote Chess blacklist

Personas non gratas for our VC games. Includes non-members of TGP.

Recruitment blacklist

Do not invite players from this list to TGP.

Do NOT Disturb list

Players who shouldn't be messaged to join team matches (for various reasons).
Note: A similar list for VC isn't needed because we have a more general VC blacklist.

TGP Member Details [2]

Details about TGP members, grouped by 100 (by Simon).
Players with: first-day join, highest ratings, highest timeouts

TGP Member Details [1]

List of TGP members, their names (if stated) and unchangeable IDs.
Date of joining TGP. Date of joining Ches..com

Competitive Teams stats & membership

Statistics of some of our opponents and their strength for team matches.

Dishonour Board [main group]

Former TGP members whose accounts have been closed for Fair Play Violations.

TGP Members not signed up for TMCL R1 or R2

Members who join neither round 1 nor round 2 of TMCL (candidates for pruning).

Technical stuff

Activity Data Sheet (link)

List of our members ordered by activity (by Bill).
Note: Playing a move in a team match or casting a vote in vote chess doesn't count as activity by Chess.com!

Games Played Count By Members Of TGP

The number of games each member played for TGP (by Bill).
The number of: registered games, ongoing games, completed games.

Question to all our admins who can work with the API --discussion--

Discussion about potential better ways of searching for active teams, to serve as "candidate opponents".

Simon's GitLab page [external]

Utility scripts in python for Chess.com (by Simon).

Newspapers

Newspaper Archive [main group]

Links to all issues of our club newspaper.

TGP Newspaper Central

Presentation of fully or partially completed TGP newspapers. Discussion.

Newspaper ~ editor's corner

Deliver items/contributions for the TGP newspaper here. Discussion.

Teaching/Learning

Mentoring Programme

Ideas and suggestions for chess teaching/learning program for the benefit of the members.

Library

A request to create a library in the main group (a forum containing chess knowledge).

Library on Fire [main group]

Links to topics associated with improving one's chess skills in TGP (main group) forums.

Off-topic & One-offs

Background to the rise of The Golden Phoenix

Background story to the founding of our club (by Theo and Jan).

Small talk - sharing topic - off-topic discussion - just_anything_you_like_forum

A forum where anybody can post/write/rant/joke/etcetera whatever they like.

Rumours and gossip

Information obtained from other clubs which might be relevant/interesting for some.

Correspondence with Chess.com

Messages with Chess.com representatives which you want to share.

Chess.com takes no action for bad behaviour within clubs

Statement from Chess.com. Discussion.

Worries ...

Where is the line for admin work between competitive approach and angle-shooting? Discussion.

F-D Group match

Discussion about the match vs. France-Deutschland Group from November 2019.
Slow response of TGP members recruited for the match. Last-minute "blitzkrieg" tactics.

IM Mat Bobula's feedback

Appreciative feedback on TGP from an International Master.

BETA club

Chess.com official beta club.

Infernal Ashes - The Phoenix's Nest

Super Admins

Admins