Can you self-promote on r/Chesscom?

Allowed, with limits. Its rules allow sharing your own work, with conditions they spell out. Read 2026-10-10 from the community's own rules.

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Can you promote on r/Chesscom?

Allowed, with limits Its rules allow sharing your own work, with conditions they spell out.

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This page quotes r/Chesscom's rules as ThreadFox read them on 2026-10-10. The quoted text is the community's; the verdict above is our reading of it. Conditions often decide whether a post fits (a required thread, flair, posting day, account age or karma), and r/Chesscom's current rules on Reddit always win over this page.

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What its rules say about promotion

Don’t encourage, promote or facilitate fair play violations
Encouraging, promoting or facilitating other users to cheat, sandbag, stall games or to violate any other violations of Chess.com's Terms of Service will result in a ban! Please read our [TOS](https://www.chess.com/legal/user-agreement), [Community Guidelines](https://www.chess.com/legal/community) and [Fair Play policy](https://www.chess.com/legal/fair-play) here.

No off-topic discussions. Flair your posts appropriately
Keep it about chess! Non-chess related content will be removed. Please refrain from discussing politics, religion, gender/sexuality or any related topics. Please use our flairs to showcase what your post is about. If you don’t find any fitting flairs, feel free to choose “Miscellaneous”. This keeps all content here organized and easier to find!

Keep advertisements and self-promotion to a minimum
Please don’t use this platform for self promotion or advertisements of any other platforms, YouTube channels, streams, chess lessons or events. If you have a Chess.com club, wrote a Chess.com blog or article and want to share, please do! Those are fine to post here and there, but please don’t spam.

All 12 rules of r/Chesscom

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Keep it civil
There's no reason to be overly rude. We welcome your opinion, but please be kind when you share it! When discussing titled players, chess personalities, other users or members of Chess.com staff, any personal attacks, abuse or harassment will not be tolerated.
Don’t discriminate, chess is for everyone!
We will not tolerate racism, sexism, homophobia or any other forms of discrimination.
Please contact Chess.com Support directly regarding any issues with your account.
We cannot offer account support through Reddit. To respect our members' privacy and in consideration of applicable laws, support requests involving private account data and actions cannot be managed on a public website. All such requests must go exclusively through chess.com/support.
Read our FAQ before posting a question regarding the website
Our [support website](https://support.chess.com/) has a comprehensive FAQ that will help you almost every time you have a question regarding your account or our website features! Please go through it, and maybe consider talking to our Support team directly before asking for help here. You can contact Support members by following the instructions [here](https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-to-contact-support-1)
Link only shares are not allowed
Please don’t share links of your games or achievements without any context or text added. Sharing only a link without any context will result in your post getting removed so as to avoid spam.
Don’t post inappropriate content
No text, images or links featuring NSFW, or disturbing content is allowed. This includes nudity, violence, gore, sexual content, use of drugs as well as malicious content (videos with loud audio damaging to ears, or epileptic content). Try to keep vulgar language to a minimum and just use common sense.
Cheating accusations are not allowed
Accusations of cheating are not allowed, as they might be unfounded and tend to result in witch-hunts. Any such posts will be deleted. Please report the user to Fair Play on the website if you’re suspicious. This includes content such as “is this user cheating?” and indirect accusations. Any further cheating discussions that are not newsworthy or notorious should be taken to our [Cheating Forum](https://www.chess.com/club/cheating-forum). Our mods will evaluate posts about cheating accordingly.
Don’t encourage, promote or facilitate fair play violations
Encouraging, promoting or facilitating other users to cheat, sandbag, stall games or to violate any other violations of Chess.com's Terms of Service will result in a ban! Please read our [TOS](https://www.chess.com/legal/user-agreement), [Community Guidelines](https://www.chess.com/legal/community) and [Fair Play policy](https://www.chess.com/legal/fair-play) here.
No off-topic discussions. Flair your posts appropriately
Keep it about chess! Non-chess related content will be removed. Please refrain from discussing politics, religion, gender/sexuality or any related topics. Please use our flairs to showcase what your post is about. If you don’t find any fitting flairs, feel free to choose “Miscellaneous”. This keeps all content here organized and easier to find!
Keep advertisements and self-promotion to a minimum
Please don’t use this platform for self promotion or advertisements of any other platforms, YouTube channels, streams, chess lessons or events. If you have a Chess.com club, wrote a Chess.com blog or article and want to share, please do! Those are fine to post here and there, but please don’t spam.
No report posts
We welcome discussion, feedback, and vent posts about your experiences on Chess.com. However, please avoid creating posts whose sole purpose is to call for another account to be investigated, muted, or banned. If you encounter abuse or harassment, the best way to ensure it is properly reviewed is by using the reporting tools on Chess.com. This subreddit is dedicated to chess and Chess.com discussion only!

What the written rules don't show

Unpublished minimums. Many communities remove posts from new or low-karma accounts through AutoModerator settings that are not on the rules page, often before a moderator sees them.
Reddit's own filters. Reddit's site-wide spam filters can remove posts from accounts that mostly share links to their own site, in any community.
The community's norms. Many communities see themselves as peers, not an audience: post where you already take part, and make the post worth reading without the link.

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