Is it illegal to open a chess room?

If you open a chess room at home after applying for registration, you have a business license and a business license for individual industrial and commercial households. If the chess room does not engage in large-scale gambling, it is legal and formal, and it is not illegal. If you break the law, you may be suspected of running a casino and gathering people to gamble.

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Article 1 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Gambling Criminal Cases.

For the purpose of making profits, one of the following circumstances belongs to "gathering gambling" as stipulated in Article 303rd of the Criminal Law:

(1) Organizing three or more people to gamble, and the total profit from tapping has reached more than 5,000 yuan;

(2) Organizing three or more people to gamble, and the amount of gambling funds reaches more than 50,000 yuan;

(3) Organizing more than 3 people to gamble, and the total number of participants in gambling reaches more than 20;

(4) Organizing 10 China citizens to gamble abroad, and collecting kickbacks and referral fees from them.

Article 303 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) is the crime of gambling.

Whoever gathers people to gamble or gamble for profit shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance and shall also be fined. Whoever opens a casino shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined.

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The above answer is only for the current information combined with my understanding of the law, please refer carefully!

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