ChesSOS : Settings

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Your Games All your games
Current - Your games in progress
Pending - Games waiting for an opponent
Completed - The results of your finished games
Declined - Challenges which you have declined and challenges you have issued which were declined by the opponent
New Game Join and Start New Games
- Open games invitations posted by others.
- Post your own game invitation or challenge another player.
Players Player Lists
Lists of players to help you find opponents.
Discussion Discussion
Public forums and private messages.
Events Events
Follow coverage of events in the chess world.
Help/Contact Help/Contact
Contact ChesSOS or get help.

Your Settings

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General General Settings include:
- Email notifications
- Tooltips
- Declining challenges
- Time zone and daylight saving
| Adjournments Adjourn or Unadjourn your games. Adjourn your games if you are unable to make moves for an extended period. | Board Appearance Customise the board colours and choose from various chess piece graphics. | Site Colours/Layouts Choose the layout and colour scheme of the site | Account Account Settings include:
- Changing your email address
- Changing your password
| Subscription Upgrade or downgrade your account subscription

Email Notifications

^? You can receive email notifications from ChesSOS when various events occur.

An email will be sent to you when...

It's your turn to move
You receive a challenge or a challenge you sent is declined
One of your games ends
There are announcements about the ChesSOS Site

Tool Tips

^? Tool tips are the little boxes which pop up when you move your mouse over certain items on the page (This is a tooltip). You can control which tool tips appear or disable them completely (except for this one).

Note: Tooltips are not visible on mobile devices

Help Tips - Superscript question marks (like this ^? This is an example of a help tooltip. ) on table headings etc.
Links - Tips which appear when you mouseover certain links (except usernames and moves)
Players - Mouseover player names to see basic statistics for that player.

Challenges

Automatically decline challenges ^? When set, challenges sent to you will be declined automatically. Upgrade to auto-decline challenges

Clock Time Format

How the clock times are displayed on game pages and game lists.

Days,Hours,Minutes -> 5d 11h 22m
Days to 2 decimal places -> 5.67 d
Days to 3 decimal places -> 5.674 d

Time Zone

^? Your time zone should be set correctly to ensure dates and times are displayed correctly in your local time. This affects the display of:
- Timestamps on moves
- Game start/end dates
- Adjournment times
When your time zone is correct, the current time (shown below the selector) will display your local time correctly.

Daylight Saving

The current time is: 2023-06-10 15:27:13

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