Terms of Service

Effective 11 November 2026

Contents

1. Who we are
2. Who can play
3. What ToxiChess is
4. Accounts
5. House rules
6. Computer-controlled players
7. Your content
8. Ratings, profiles and grades
9. PRO subscriptions
10. Availability and changes
11. Our stuff
12. Suspension and closing accounts
13. Liability
14. Law and disputes
15. Changes to these terms
16. Contact

1.Who we are

ToxiChess (toxichess.com) is run by this company, registered in Bulgaria:

In these terms, “we” and “us” mean that company, and “you” means the person using ToxiChess.

By using ToxiChess you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the site.

2.Who can play

Adults only.

You must be at least 18 years old to use ToxiChess, with or without an account. By using it you confirm that you are. If we learn that someone under 18 is using ToxiChess, we will close their account and delete their data.

3.What ToxiChess is

It's chess plus a lot of swearing, on purpose.

ToxiChess is a comedy chess game. Players, bots and the commentator curse, mock and roast each other, in writing and out loud. By playing, you accept that you will see and hear strong language and insults aimed at your moves and at you as a player. All of it is meant as part of the game. The Voice and Sound switches turn the spoken part off. If the rest isn't for you, ToxiChess isn't either.

A sense of humor is a requirement for using ToxiChess. By playing, with or without an account, or by signing up, you confirm that you have one and that you understand the insults as jokes, not as real statements about you or anyone else. If you can’t take it that way, please don’t use ToxiChess.

Nothing said in the game by us, our bots or the commentator is a statement of fact about you.

4.Accounts

You can play without an account. An account (free) saves your Dumbass Profile, your own swears and your settings, puts you on the ratings ladders, and is needed for PRO.

• We sign you in by sending a one-time link and code to your email. There's no password, so keep your email account secure: whoever controls it can sign in as you.
• One person per account. Don't share it, sell it or use someone else's.
• Pick a display name that follows the house rules. We may change names that don't.
• You can ask us to delete your account at any time through the contact form.

5.House rules

Trash-talk the game, not the human.

Curse at your opponent's moves as much as you like. You must not:

• use slurs or attack anyone's race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or similar traits;
• threaten anyone, encourage self-harm, or make sexual comments about another player;
• share anyone's real-life personal information (names, addresses, photos, contact details), or try to find out who another player is;
• keep harassing someone outside the game, or follow them from game to game;
• post illegal content, spam, adverts or links;
• get help from a chess engine, another person or any other tool during a rated online game;
• deliberately lose games, play yourself from several accounts or otherwise rig ratings;
• use bots, scripts or scrapers on the site, overload it, or try to get around its limits or security;
• pretend to be us, our staff or another person.

The words you type yourself (your own swears, GIF captions and names) pass through an automatic filter that blocks slurs. The filter isn't perfect, and getting something past it doesn't make it allowed. You can report a player through the contact form.

6.Computer-controlled players

Some of the people you play aren't people.

Big Gary is obviously a bot. Besides him, we run computer-controlled players so there's always someone to play. They:

• can be matched with you in random-opponent games (“Random dumbass”), sometimes under a guest name;
• play, chat and curse using the game's built-in lines, and behave like ordinary players;
• appear on the leaderboards and are included in the number of players online and games in progress;
• are not labelled individually.

Games against them count toward your ratings like any other online game. Games with a friend through a link you share are always against the person who opened it.

7.Your content

Your content is what you put into ToxiChess: your display name, your own swears, captions, chat and the moves you play. It stays yours. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, show, send and read it aloud as needed to run the game (for example, sending your swear to your opponent and saying it with a synthetic voice). The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies already shown to other players or kept in backups for the time stated in the Privacy Policy.

You're responsible for what you post. We may remove any content that breaks these terms.

8.Ratings, profiles and grades

The Smartest Ass and Dumb Fuck ratings, the Dumbass Profile and the move grades of the autopsy are for fun. They come from a chess engine and our own rules and may be wrong. They aren't official chess ratings. We may adjust, recalculate or reset ratings, for example to fix errors or undo cheating.

9.PRO subscriptions

What it is

PRO unlocks extra features, currently the full Dumbass Profile and unlimited saved swears. The current list is shown on the site where you buy PRO. Everything else stays free.

Price and renewal

• PRO costs US$2.99 a month or US$24.99 a year. Prices include any VAT or sales tax we must charge; your bank may add currency conversion fees.
• You pay up front for each month or year. Your subscription renews automatically and you're charged at the start of each new period until you cancel.
• Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see your full card details.
• If a payment fails, Stripe retries it for a while and PRO stays on. If it still fails, PRO ends.

Cancelling

You can cancel any time with Manage subscription on your PRO card, which opens Stripe's billing page. PRO then stays on until the end of the period you've paid for and doesn't renew. Apart from the refund below or where the law requires otherwise, we don't refund the unused part of a period.

14-day refund

If you're a consumer, you can cancel your first PRO subscription within 14 days of paying and get a full refund. Send a request through the contact form or any clear statement that you want to withdraw. We refund to your original payment method within 14 days of your request, and PRO ends when we do. This includes, and goes further than, the legal right of withdrawal for consumers in the EU.

Price changes

If we change the price of PRO, we'll email you at least 30 days before it applies to you. The new price applies from your next renewal after that notice. If you don't want it, cancel before then.

10.Availability and changes

We work to keep ToxiChess running, but it's offered as it is, and we can't promise it will always be available or free of bugs. We may change, add or remove features. If we remove a PRO feature you're paying for, or shut down PRO, we'll tell you in advance and refund the unused part of your subscription.

11.Our stuff

The ToxiChess name and logo, the game's text, lines, voices, characters (including Big Gary and Vex), art, sounds and code belong to us or our licensors. You may use the site for your own personal entertainment and share the replay clips and cards the game makes for you. You may not copy, resell or reuse our content to build another service.

Move analysis runs on the open-source Stockfish chess engine (GPL-3.0) on our servers. Fonts come from Google Fonts under their open licences.

12.Suspension and closing accounts

If you break these terms, we may remove content, mute you, reset your ratings, or suspend or close your account. We'll act in proportion to what happened and, where reasonable, tell you why. If we close an account with an active PRO subscription for a serious or repeated breach, the subscription ends without a refund; if we close it for any other reason, we refund the unused part.

You can stop using ToxiChess whenever you like, and ask us to delete your account through the contact form. Cancel PRO first so you aren't charged again.

13.Liability

Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn't allow us to limit, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or gross negligence, or your rights as a consumer.

Apart from that, we aren't liable for losses that weren't foreseeable, for things other players say or do, or for losses caused by events outside our reasonable control. Our total liability to you is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and US$50.

14.Law and disputes

These terms are governed by Bulgarian law, and the courts of Bulgaria have jurisdiction. If you're a consumer living elsewhere in the EU, you also keep the protection of your own country's mandatory consumer laws and can bring a claim in your local courts.

If you have a problem, talk to us first through the contact form. Consumers can also turn to the Bulgarian Commission for Consumer Protection (kzp.bg) and its conciliation committees for out-of-court dispute resolution.

15.Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when we add features or the law changes. The date at the top shows the latest version. For changes that matter, such as to prices or your rights, we'll tell you on the site or by email at least 30 days before they apply. If you keep using ToxiChess after that, the new terms apply; if you don't agree, you can stop using it and cancel PRO.

16.Contact

Questions, complaints, reports or refund requests: use the contact form. We usually reply within a few working days.