Can one account be used by multiple kids?

My nephews are getting a bit interested in chess.
I have installed Lichess on 2 tablets and have created an unique account to share for them using a spare email I had.

Is this allowed out should I create a different account per kid?
What happens when they use the same account at the same time on different tablets?

Clearly not allowed. From the TOS:

Account sharing - The sharing of accounts is generally not permitted. Users may share an account for activities like “hand and brain”, for streaming or educational purposes, but this must be clear in the account profile description, with names and ratings where relevant, and to opponents (e.g., by accepting viewer challenges, or playing pre-arranged matches, rather than from general lobby seeks).

Understood, thanks!

I suspect this is a bit unfortunate as kids do like to play (and argue!) together.

If you detect their interest dropping due to solo-play you could try playing chess against the bots on Lucaschess (they have ones especially for kids) or buying a weak chess computer - they can be very cheap - the 'talking' ones can be amusing to kids if not adults! Lexibook have a chess computer that has lots of flashing lights, sounds and voices etc obviously aimed at young children.

@sheckley666 said in #2:

Clearly not allowed. From the TOS:

Account sharing - The sharing of accounts is generally not permitted. Users may share an account for activities like “hand and brain”, for streaming or educational purposes, but this must be clear in the account profile description, with names and ratings where relevant, and to opponents (e.g., by accepting viewer challenges, or playing pre-arranged matches, rather than from general lobby seeks).

"Clearly not allowed" seems an excessive conclusion here to me. How about just stating in the account profile that it's a shared account for the kids? It seems a reasonable thing to do, so you avoid the cumbersome re-login for the kids? It seems just pragmatic and no one is really deceived by it.

Edit: actually when I think about it, it might be even better to just not state it in the profile in protection of the kids. But maybe there is some "kids mode" on lichess that disables communication anyway? I don't know much about it. Anyway, I would just let them play and I don't think anyone gets harmed by it and I guess lichess staff wouldn't mind.

Edit 2: ok I stand corrected, we got an official response.

@aescht said in #5:

"Clearly not allowed" seems an excessive conclusion here to me. How about just stating in the account profile that it's a shared account for the kids?

No, account sharing is not allowed, the tos is very clear about it.

It seems a reasonable thing to do, so you avoid the cumbersome re-login for the kids? It seems just pragmatic and no one is really deceived by it.

If you know the real rating of every person that might have access to the account at any point since creation please let players know in advance so that opponents will know who they're actually facing.