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Go to Chess.com

With your parents’ approval, click “sign up”. You are signing up for the free membership only. (You can enter your real name in settings so that others can view it below your username on the “MEMBERS” list.)

1. Choose and Enter your username.
2. Enter the email address you would like to use.
3. Create a password that you and/or your device will remember.

After logging in,

1. Hover over the “connect” tab.
2. Go to “clubs”
3. Find the Roosevelt HS or Molly Pruitt Lib Chess Room(s) and click “request”. (you will be approved within 24 hours)

Challenge a teammate to a game:

1. Do not click “Play” if it doesn’t say the name of the person you want to play. That will start a game with some random person somewhere.
2. Click “members”.
3. Hover over the member you want to play, and click on the “challenge” button on their profile.
4. You can set it for how long of a game you want, how long between moves, etc. You can make it pause if someone goes too long between moves or forfeit.