Rules and Regulations

  1.  The Institute collects the full fee in advance.
  2. For an individual class or a group class full fee for a few number sessions will be collected.
  3. For a regular batch, the whole course fee will be collected in advance. However, for genuine reasons, the coach may allow a student to pay the course fees in two installments where the first installment to be paid before commencing the course and the second installment, in the next five sessions.
  4. If a student discontinues the class for any reason, no refund will be provided.
    However, if a student has to take medical leave for a few months, their fee will be carried forward but they need to complete the course within two years.
If in case of any cancellation or delay in class, the coach will inform all the respective students well in advance; the same is expected from students. Any cancellation or delay in class either from student or coach will be compensated according to the institute’s policy, mentioned below;
 
For an individual class
• If a student is unable to join the scheduled class and if informed well in advance the coach will reschedule the class at another convenient time for both, the coach and the student.
• If a student misses a class without prior intimation,
  – First time he will only be warned.
  – Second time onwards a full fee for the respective session will be charged by the coach.
• All the coaches start the class five minutes before the scheduled time. If a student comes late than the scheduled time,
  – First time, the coach will warn the student and compensate for that time whenever possible.
  – Second time onwards no compensation will be provided. The class will be conducted for the remaining time and the full fee for that session will be charged to the student. 
 
For a group class or a batch
• If a student misses a class then they will be called 15 minutes early to cover their missed class the next time and then will continue in the regular class.
• If half the students in a group/batch are unable to attend the class, the coach will reschedule it to another time convenient to everyone or else will cancel the class for that day.
• If after starting the class, the coach comes to know only a few or half the students can attend, the coach will continue to conduct the class and other students’ missed class will be compensated by calling them 15 minutes early in the next class.
Rules

Practice Session Rules

Rules to be followed by students while participating in the Sunday practice session:-

The regular practice session is conducted every Sunday at a time convenient for majority of students. If you miss any of the sessions no compensation can be provided by the institute; however, students can play online at their convenient time to compensate.

Students are strictly forbidden to resign from any game for any reason. This is to ensure proper practice (resignation will not give an opponent a chance to practice checkmate, what they have learned in the class).

Students are strictly not allowed to draw the game by mutual agreement.
However, draw by stalemate, not enough mating material and 3-fold repetitions are allowed.
This is again to ensure fair practice and to get out of the habit of drawing the game instead of losing.

Institute conducts the separate practice sessions for Eastern and Western Countries due to different time zones. Even for Eastern Countries practice sessions can be conducted in two categories, namely Amateur and Advanced.
Following discipline should be followed by all the students while joining the practice session:
• Students should join the group and category assigned by the respective coach.
• Students from Eastern Countries are not allowed to join the practice session for western countries unless permitted by the coach.
• Students who will be participating in the advanced category are strictly not allowed to join any other group/category.
• However students playing in the amateur category may participate in the advanced category with the coach’s permission.
• A student can participate only in one category at a time.
• Students from Western countries are not allowed to participate in the advanced category for Eastern players, however, they can join in the amateur category with the coach’s permission.

Taking any kind of help from friends, parents, computer system, engine, any apps is strictly prohibited, even for a single move.

If a player’s account is fully or partially banned by lichess then by default (according to lichess policy) that player is not allowed to participate in the team’s tournaments.

If a player is found guilty of breaking any of the first four rules;
• For the first two times he will be warned by the coach.
• The third time he will be removed from the team for two months.
• After re-joining the team if a player is found guilty again even once he will be permanently removed from the institute’s team on lichess and will not be eligible to participate in any of the institute’s tournaments/events/activities.

If a player is found guilty for breaking the fifth rule;
• If a player’s account is banned, the coach will inspect his account to know why the account must have been banned by lichess.
• The banned account cannot be restored so the player will have to create a new account.
• But only on parent’s genuine request a student will be admitted again to the team.
• If the same player’s account is banned by lichess for any reason he will not be allowed to join the team again even with the new account. No request will be entertained at all.