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How to Create New Game

There is an easy way to create the game. After you registered and loged in on this site you will see few links on your right. One of the link is New Game. You can see few fields you need to fill in in order to start new game. First field is Opponent's user name. There are two ways to create the game:

1. Put the name of the user if you know who you want to play with. In this case the game will start immediately after you click 'Start Game' button.

2. You can leave the Opponent's name as empty. In this case your game will appear in the open Invites page. This game can be accepted by any player who will obey your filter for the game.

'Game name' is description of the game. It will show in your 'My Page' and in the game itself.

'Play as' allows you to select the color you would like to play.

'Time out' is really helpful feature. This time span will allow you to claim the win if the timeout was exceeded. As well as it helps your opponent to claim win against you if you don't move in certain timeout. For example you have a defined timeout in 3 days. Your opponent suddenly stopped making any moves in the middle of the game. 3 days go by and now you can claim win in this game on the 'My Game' page.

There are minimal rating and maximum rating fields at the bottom of the page. Those fields work only if you don't provide the Opponent Name. You can leave those fields as they are. In this case they will be no restriction for your potential opponent. Otherwise your opponent rating should fit in in your defined rating filter. For example if you leave Minimal rating as 1200 and maximum rating as 1400 it means any player with rating from 1200 to 1400 can accept your invitation to play.

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