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The currency on the chess server playchess.com. Use it to play against grandmasters, to rent strong Engines in the ChessBase Engine Cloud or to pay for private training.  Ducats can only be used with a valid ChessBase Account (=ChessBase Membership) on Playchess. Ducats can also be used to buy ChessBase products.

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