Fair play & security
The game is honest or it is nothing.
Real money on a chess board only works if cheating does not pay and the accounting cannot drift. Here is what protects both, in specific terms.
01 — Anti-cheat
Engine help is the one thing that would break this.
A player consulting a chess engine would beat almost anyone. Detection is therefore the most important system on the platform, and it runs on every rated game, not on complaints.
- 01Move-quality analysisEvery rated game is compared against engine choices. Consistent engine-level accuracy, especially in unfamiliar positions, is the clearest signal there is.
- 02Timing patternsHumans think for different lengths of time in different positions. Uniform move times, or long pauses on obvious recaptures, look nothing like human play.
- 03Rating trajectorySudden jumps in strength, or strength that appears only at high stakes, trigger review of the account's whole history rather than the single game.
- 04Device and session signalsMultiple accounts sharing a device or network, or sessions overlapping in ways one person could not, are flagged automatically.
- 05Human review before actionNo account is sanctioned by a score alone. Flagged cases are reviewed by a person against the full replay before anything happens to a balance.
- First confirmed case
- Winnings reversed
- Repeat or clear intent
- Account closed
- Collusion between accounts
- All accounts closed
- Funds from cheated games
- Returned to victims
Stakes taken from a confirmed cheat are returned to the players they were taken from, not kept by the platform.
02 — Server authority
Your browser asks. The server decides.
Nothing that affects the result is trusted to the client. A modified browser, a patched app or a fake network response cannot buy a second of clock or force an illegal move, because the client never holds the truth in the first place.
Time runs on the server
Your remaining time is the server's number, not your browser's. Lag is measured and does not silently cost you the clock.
Legality checked server-side
A move only exists once the server accepts it. An impossible move sent by a modified client is simply rejected.
One authoritative board
Both players read the same server-held position. There is no version of the game living only in one player's client.
Settlement is automatic
Checkmate, resignation, timeout and draw are all detected server-side, and escrow releases from that result. No admin decides who won.
03 — The ledger
Money is moved, never created.
Every movement is written as two matching entries: one account credited, another debited, by the same amount, in the same transaction. Balances cannot drift, and a payout cannot exist without a matching stake.
Escrow is a real account in that ledger, not a status flag on a row. When a match starts, money genuinely leaves both wallets and sits somewhere neither player controls.
See escrow in the full process04 — Collusion & data
Two accounts cannot quietly feed each other.
You do not choose your opponent
There is no way to invite a friend into a staked match. Pairing comes from the queue, which removes the simplest form of collusion entirely.
Repeat pairings are watched
Two accounts meeting far more often than the queue would explain is flagged, along with one-sided results between them.
Net transfers are traced
The ledger makes value moving consistently from one account to another visible, even across many small games.
One account per person
Withdrawals go only to a payment account in the account holder's own name, via the same method they deposited with, which makes multi-accounting difficult to cash out.
Throwing games is a breach
Losing on purpose to move money is treated exactly as cheating is, and closes every account involved.
Everything is on record
Full replays of all games are public on player profiles, so patterns are visible to other players and not only to us.
Reporting something
If a game felt wrong, report it from the match replay. Every game is recorded, so a review looks at the actual moves and timings rather than taking either player's word.
Contact supportTraffic is encrypted in transit and account and financial data is encrypted at rest.
Receipt photos are visible only to the admins approving them, and are retained only as long as approval and audit require.
Your username, country, rating, results and replays. Never your email, payment details or deposit documents.
