Before playing chess for real money, you must deposit money into your PlayE4™ account. There are several ways to play chess for real money after making a deposit: joining an existing chess table, creating a new one or enroll to one of PlayE4™'s tournaments. In all these cases there is a sum involved and the winner takes everything, paying a small fee.PlayE4™ protects its players from disconnections, thus when playing for real money, you can be sure that if a player disconnects and leaves the table in the middle of the game, he will pay the agreed stake.
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Cheating in game intends to give an unfair advantage to one or more players by acting outside the rules. PlayE4™ uses the services of a world Anti-cheating company, called CogniSafe.
CogniSafe develops a next generation anti-cheat and security platform for the online players and game providers. Based on advanced behavioral analysis of the game processes and the gamer activities, CogniSafe's solution detects and handles a variety of threats on players and deviation from fair playing procedures. Cognisafe product highlights are:

1. Enables to spot cheats and cheaters in real-time.


2. Learning and adaptation against new threats or threats mutations .


3. Provides Game metrics for rating and analyze players in game session and after the sessions.

Can protect multiple and multiplayer online games. (Patent pending - US patent 11/850,223)

Chess - Single Game (Money) Commission is taken from the final winning sum (the winner pays for both players)

Up to $50: 4.9% Example: Joe and Alex play a single game with an initial sum involved of $10. Alex wins.
$9.02 will be added to Alex's balance and $10 will be deducted from Joe's balance (the commission is $0.49).

$50 up to $100: 3.9%

Over $100: 2.9%

chess - Series Games (Match) The commission is taken from the sum involved plus 0.5% for each additional point in a game over 1 (the winner pays both).

Up to $50: base commission (for 1 point): 4.9%, every point: +0.5%.

Example: Diane and Julia play a Series (match) up to 3 points with sum involved of $10. Diane wins the series 3-1. The commission for 3 points is a base commission of 4.9%+2*0.5%=5.9% The commission from each player is$10*5.9%=$0.59 (the winner pays both their commissions). $8.82 will be added to Diane's balance and $10 will be deducted from Julia's balance.

$50 up to $100: base commission (for 1 point): 3.9%, every point: +0.5%.

Over $100: base commission (for 1 point): 2.9%, every point: +0.5%.

PlayE4™ encourages matches between players with a similar rating level, therefore: Increase of 25% in commissions if the rating of one of the players is less than 1620.

And:

Increase of 50% in commissions when the rating difference is 100 to 199.
Increase of 100% in commissions when the rating difference is 200 or more.
Increase of 150% in commissions when the rating difference is 250 or more.
Increase of 200% in commissions when the rating difference is 300 or more.

The following applies only when the last 4 rules apply as well: -Increased commission will not be applied if both players have a rating higher than 1650 or less than 1450. -A rating lower than 1400 is considered as 1400 and displayed as 1400*.

Play and practice chess for fun and improve your game skill. Once you have mastered the basics of the game, you can move up and play chess for real money.