ChessSum Coins.
Clear rules.

Coins are internal ChessSum game units. This program does not offer cash withdrawals, cryptocurrency sales or guaranteed investment returns.

1. Internal game units

ChessSum Coins are free internal game units, not cash, an issued blockchain token, a deposit or a crypto wallet. CS$ is an internal game valuation unit and is not USD. Coins cannot currently be purchased, sold back, exchanged for cash or withdrawn to banks, exchanges or external wallets. Services purchasable with Coins are in development and cannot be checked out now.

Addresses beginning with csum_ accept internal ChessSum Coins only. They are public identifiers, not private keys. Never send cryptocurrency to them.

Getting Coins: free now, optional purchases planned

Coins are currently available free of charge to registered ChessSum members through qualifying rewards and activities. Buying Coins is not available now. We plan to introduce optional Coin purchases in the future; pricing, availability and purchase terms have not been announced. This plan concerns internal Coins, separately from any future Solana token.

Coins & Wallet guide, FAQ and whitepaper →

2. Welcome reward and existing members

The first 1,000 eligible participants receive a CS$10 welcome reward; the next 4,000 receive CS$5; later eligible participants receive CS$2.50. The offered CS$ value is converted at grant creation, rounded down to six decimal places of a Coin. Its quantity and grant terms are then frozen. The current displayed valuation may change.

A tier is reserved only after email confirmation, verified ownership of an own game account and ten completed games. Raw registrations and Following links do not reserve slots. At program initialization, existing members meeting those checks receive reserved priority in original registration order. Other members qualify in claim order. Priority is reserved at program launch.

The grant remains pending until seven full days have elapsed since original ChessSum registration and the member has meaningful activity on three different UTC days after program launch and wallet activation. Ownership must still be verified. Existing members keep their original registration date; they do not restart the seven-day clock. Historical passive visits are not reconstructed as activity.

One welcome reward per ChessSum member. Adding a second platform, disconnecting or reconnecting does not create another reward. A game account already used for a welcome reward cannot be recycled. Ownership disputes are reviewed without exposing another member's email or automatically moving a wallet or issuing a duplicate reward.

Chess.com verification uses an expiring code sent from the claimed account to the assigned operator recipient. An administrator checks the actual received sender and code. The code expires after 48 hours; up to three new challenges per day and five review attempts per challenge are allowed. Existing Lichess OAuth verification is reused only when it actually identifies the matching owner. Typing a username is not verification.

3. Qualifying activity and limits

Program days and weekly/monthly limits use UTC. A week begins Monday at 00:00 UTC; a month begins on its first day at 00:00 UTC. Local display dates are for convenience and do not change eligibility.

Game rewards require a newly played rated standard game, at least ten recorded full-move numbers, a completed eligible outcome, verified ownership, and a completion time after program launch, wallet activation and connection of the game account. Historical imported games, excluded games, repeated provider deliveries, page refreshes and transfers earn nothing. A short legitimate game can be ineligible under this anti-farming rule; it is not a fraud accusation.

• First five qualifying games per UTC day: CS$0.0005 each.
• First three qualifying wins per day: an additional CS$0.0005 each.
• Combined ordinary daily ceiling: CS$0.005.
• Meaningful activity on three days in a UTC week: CS$0.0025.
• A draw receives only the base completion reward. A loss never deducts Coins.

A completed analysis of an owned verified account can count toward an active day. A paid human-review reward of CS$0.001 once per day is proposed, but remains inactive until an actual verified review-completion flow exists. Puzzle rewards are not activated. No rewards for content views, likes or bug reports are promised.

Amounts are game-value budgets, not guaranteed fixed Coin earnings. Fractional rewards use integer micro-Coins. Conversion rounds down to a micro-Coin; balances and stored rates do not use binary floating-point arithmetic.

4. Friend invitations

New members after program launch may explicitly accept one invitation. First accepted valid attribution wins, and an existing referrer cannot be silently replaced. Existing community points and pre-launch invitations are preserved separately and are not converted into Coins.

The offer is CS$0.01 to each party after qualification. Its value and terms are frozen at acceptance, with Coins converted at actual issuance. Both members need verified ownership, seven days membership and three active days; the invited member additionally needs ten qualifying newly played games after accepting the invitation.

The referrer's monthly reward-value cap is CS$0.05. Qualified accepted offers exceeding that month's budget remain queued in acceptance order for a later month. Their offered values are preserved. Monthly emission limits can also delay grants; an unavailable allocation is not a completed grant. Program limits are enforced on the server.

No self-referrals, duplicate-account farming or multilevel rewards. Shared family networks or IP addresses alone do not establish abuse. Suspected rewards can be held for review with an understandable reason and an appeal route.

5. Transfers, errors and recovery

Transfers use available Coins only and have zero launch fee. Pending Coins cannot be sent or spent. Confirm the recipient's permitted identity, full internal address, amount and fee before sending. Retries reuse an operation ID to avoid duplicate transfers. A transfer does not issue new Coins.

A mistaken destination does not guarantee reversal. Support reviews disputes and recovery requests; an authorized correction is a new auditable transaction, not an erased record. Existing accounting history is retained. No automatic transfer of a disputed game account's ChessSum wallet occurs.

6. Internal rate and future assets

The starting rate is one Coin = CS$0.001. A shared internal calculation runs every 30 seconds and may remain unchanged. This platform-set game valuation is not an exchange price, market demand or cash income. The bounded first-year calculation uses activity, returning members and issued rewards around an 11% annual policy trend, with a launch floor. This does not promise a return in money or a future token price. The rate freezes after the first year pending a new policy.

Charts use stored observations. Demo history is labeled. No invented trading volume, liquidity or price history is published. Planned services, their prices and capacity are not operational commitments. Current Coins do not guarantee future tokens, a conversion ratio, listing or withdrawal.

7. Administration, privacy and changes

Administrators can pause transfers, review suspicious grants and post documented corrections. Settings changes must not silently reprice or remove already granted Coin quantities. New terms and the treatment of existing entitlements require owner/legal review and notice where applicable. No expiry, account-closure forfeiture or country/age policy is approved by this draft.

Deleting a ChessSum account removes its wallet-to-login link and private activity and verification data. Accounting entries remain to preserve transfer history and balance integrity; the closed wallet cannot sign in, receive transfers or earn rewards. Deletion does not transfer its balance to another member or create a second welcome claim.

Future cryptocurrency issuance and token sales remain separate plans, subject to further review and implementation. This internal-Coins release does not claim regulatory or independent legal approval and does not waive mandatory rights.

For ownership questions, corrections, appeals or program support, use the existing ChessSum contact page.