Most games and tournaments are played on a correspondence chess server owned by the club for this purpose.
SchemingMind was accepted as a member organisation of the British Federation for Correspondence Chess (BFCC) in 2007.
Competition formats includes free challenges, pyramids, team matches and leagues, as well as private or public mini-tournaments of either knockout, dropout or double round robin tournaments.
Dropout is a SchemingMind specific tournament scheme, invented as an intermediate step between knockout and Swiss.
Free membership puts limits on the number of simultaneous games and the frequency of tournament entry.
The subscription is offered on a yearly basis and may be bought for personal use or in the form of a gift token.