Video chess, matchmaking, safety, and your ChessTV account.

ChessTV is a face-to-face online chess platform. You can find a random opponent or play in a private room with live video, voice, chess clocks, rematches, and game history.

Video chess means playing online chess while seeing or hearing the other player live, so the game feels closer to a face-to-face match.

Yes. Room controls let you turn your camera and microphone on or off. Some interactions may feel less face-to-face without video, but normal chess controls remain available.

Open Random Matchmaking and choose Find opponent. ChessTV places you in a live queue and creates a shared room when another eligible player is available. You can cancel before a match is created.

Random-matchmaking boards are public, so visitors can watch the moves and clocks live or replay the finished game. Camera, microphone, and chat stay between the players. Private, invite, and Connection-room games are not publicly listed or replayable.

Random video matchmaking is restricted to users who self-declare that they are 18 or older. This is a one-time age confirmation, not age verification. ChessTV stores the confirmation and timestamp but does not collect your date of birth solely for this purpose.

No. The confirmation applies specifically to random video matchmaking. It does not by itself restrict private rooms or invitation links.

Private rooms are limited to their assigned creator and guest. A room can be shared by invite, and room content is shown only to eligible participants.

Yes. Either participant can propose a time control. The other player can accept it, and conflicting simultaneous proposals are handled so an unintended game is not created.

Free accounts do not expire. You can create private rooms, use Connections, and play up to five games per day. Every successfully created game counts for each participating Free Tier player, regardless of who initiated or accepted it. ChessTV Pro removes the daily limit.

The five-game allowance resets at midnight UTC. Creating an empty room, rejecting or expiring a challenge, and cancelling matchmaking before a game is created do not consume a game.

Connections help you keep track of players you may want to play again. You can send, accept, decline, or remove a connection, see relevant online status, and challenge an online connection.

A player is shown as online when their signed-in account has ChessTV open and connected. Status can take a moment to update after someone disconnects.

Yes. Player names and avatars in rooms link to public ChessTV profiles showing the username and completed-room-game statistics. Account contact details are not displayed there.

ChessTV does not routinely record or store complete video or audio sessions. Live media is transmitted to provide video chess, and limited technical connection data may be processed for reliability and security.

Submitting a report also blocks the reported player and ends the shared interaction. You can choose to attach one still frame from the opponent’s displayed video when submitting. It does not capture audio or continuously record the session.

Report details and any attached video frame are not public. Access is restricted to authorized personnel and service providers who need it for safety, moderation, investigation, legal, or technical purposes.

Blocked players cannot connect, challenge, match randomly, or continue using shared rooms with each other. The other player receives only a generic message when access to a room is revoked.

After a game finishes, video and audio may remain available for a five-minute grace period so players can talk or arrange another game. Both stop when that period ends, or earlier if you leave or stop media.

You can update supported profile details in Settings. For access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, or other privacy requests, contact support@chesstv.com. See the Privacy Policy for retention rules and legal exceptions.