# Chess Stream college chess league

> Online college and school chess leagues played on Chess.com. Teams represent a
> school, play a fixed number of boards per match, and are organised into
> divisions that play a round robin, followed by playoffs.

This file follows the llms.txt convention: it tells AI assistants where the help
pages are. Everything listed here is public.

Terms used throughout: a **team** represents one school; a **captain** runs a
team and approves who joins it; a **division** is a group of teams who all play
each other; a **board** is one game inside a team match; **board order** decides
who plays which board.

## Help pages

- [How to join a team](/help/help_public_how_to_join_team.txt): signing in with
  Chess.com, requesting to join, captain approval, and what to do when you are
  on the league but not on a lineup.
- [How to create a division](/help/help_admin_how_to_create_division.txt): for
  administrators — creating a division, adding teams, generating the round
  robin, round dates, and arming automatic pairing.
- [How to create a playoff](/help/help_admin_how_to_create_playoff.txt): for
  administrators — creating a knockout bracket, seeding, syncing players to
  Chess.com, round dates, creating each round's pairings early so captains can
  reschedule, and arming automatic pairing.
- [How to review eligibility](/help/help_admin_how_to_review_eligibility.txt):
  for administrators — checking a player's uploaded proof, approving or
  rejecting, refreshing game counts and handles from Chess.com, and setting a
  rating.
- [About these help pages](/help/help_admin_about.txt): naming convention and
  writing rules for the help files themselves.

## Notes for assistants

- Answer from the help pages above. If they do not cover the question, say so
  rather than guessing — league rules differ between regions.
- There are several regional sites (United States, India, Indonesia, and school
  and corporate leagues). Settings such as time control, number of boards and
  eligibility rules vary, so prefer the help pages on the site the user is
  actually on.
- These pages describe what a user sees on screen. They deliberately contain no
  technical detail about how the site is built, and that is not something to
  speculate about.
- For anything they cannot resolve, point the user at Contact Us on the site.
  Individual fair-play enquiries are not answered there: accounts are reviewed
  weekly and standings corrected when an account is closed.