Learn and solve unlimited number of puzzles to sharpen your chess skills for free. Practice and create games to play against friends, colleagues or even random online players and get compensated for every checkmate you deliver. Also, get paid to teach chess on Eurochess and much more.
Born in Saint Petersburg on January 30, 1937, Boris Vasilievich Spassky was a Russian Chess grandmaster and one of the most talented players of his generation. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, having held the title from 1969 to 1972.
Historically, Mr. Boris played three world championship matches: he lost to Tigran Petrosian in 1966 and defeated Petrosian in 1969 to become world champion. He then lost to Bobby Fischer in a famous chess match in 1972.
Grandmaster debut
Spassky was considered a chess prodigy. He attained the Grandmaster title at the age of 18 and made his debut in the Candidates Tournament (Amsterdam, 1956) at 19.
After defeating Keres (1965), Geller (1965), and Tal (1965) in Candidates matches, he earned the right to challenge Petrosian but lost the title match (Moscow, 1966). Spassky made it all the way up again in the next cycle and won the crown in his second match against the ninth world champion.
Boris Spassky, right, playing the Yugoslavian Svetozar Gligoric at the 41st Annual International Chess Congress, 1965. This was the beginning of the Russian champion’s peak period. Image: Central Press/Getty Images
Spassky played seven times for the Soviet Olympiad team (1962–1978). In 1976, Spassky immigrated to France; he competed for France in three more Olympiads (1984–1988).
Death
GM Spassky died on Thursday, 27 February 2025 aged 88 years.
After years of development, Eurochess, a premium chess-for-money gaming app finally launches. Unlike other chess platforms, you earn Eurochess coin for every checkmate you deliver.
Joining Eurochess
To start earning from your chess skills, simply follow the following steps:
Verify registration using OTP received on E-mail & Whatsapp
How Eurochess works
The first step is to buy Eurochess coins here then proceed to Eurochess playground. The purchase can be made via M-PESA and other payment gateways. There are not transaction charges imposed on the user.
For next steps, create a game as public if you wish to play with random users or private to play with specific user.
Every chess game initiated takes one Eurochess coin from each opponent, as an entry ticket to the Eurochess chessboard. On Checkmate, the winner is rewarded with 1.75 Eurochess coins. If the players draw, they get refunded 1 coin each.
Anti-cheating
Eurochess app reviews all moves before completely crediting the winner. If engines like stockfish are detected, the awarded coins are confiscated and the cheating account is permanently banned.
Withdrawing funds from Eurochess wallet
Eurochess coins can be converted back to original currencies annd withdrawn directly to M-PESA and other payment channels with no transaction charges.
According to a report by Wako Kunu, there are about 43,956 Kenyans on chess.com- the largest online chess platform in the world. These chess enthusists from Kenya have played 41,542,412 games on the platform. With an average rating of 677 in rapid, 682 in blitz, and 574 in bullet rating, this makes Kenya among the top rated chess players in Africa.
Chess Communities to join in Nairobi
Eurochess community is the most recommended chess club to join in Nairobi. The club does not charge any membership fees and has both online and physical presence. To join, you simply register online here. You will receive another link with further instructions on your Kenyan WhatsApp Number.
FAQs
Question: Does Eurochess Nairobi Club charge membership fees? Answer: No
Question: How do I join Eurochess Nairobi Club? Answer:Fill this form
Question: Do you admit begginers? Answer: Yes, Eurochess Nairobi club accomodates both chess beginners and experinced players.
Question: Does Eurochess club often hold tournaments? Answer: Yes. Monthly. Both online and physically!
With a few clicks, you can now enroll for weekly online chess classes on the Eurochess App. We have a pool of experienced, verified, and reliable chess tutors for both physical and online chess classes, twice a week. Interested parties are required to choose their preferred two days and each session takes 45 minutes only.
We have personalized content for beginners, intermediate-level as well as experienced chess players. Eurochess campus classes cut across all topics: from opening, defense, and deflection, to crushing, backRankMate, and endgame. The mode of teaching is entirely practical. The online classes are available for anyone across the globe while we are only offering physical classes in Nairobi only.
Remember to visit our free online playground here to learn and practice your chess skills. Solve an unlimited number of puzzles on the Eurochess App puzzles here to sharpen your chess skills for free. At Eurochess, you get compensated for every checkmate you deliver when you play against friends or random online chess opponents. Also, get paid to teach chess on Eurochess and much more.
We are looking for chess experts and specialists to create content and teach chess newbies on our platform. This includes blog posts and video tutorials, guidelines, and tips on how to play and perfect/master chess moves. The deliverables include a minimum of one article per week and/or 1 video per month. Additionally, we are also looking for chess experts to conduct chess classes physically and/or online.
Requirements
Fluency in English
Experience in chess(elo of 800 and above in https://lichess.org/ or https://chess.com)
Be within Nairobi ( for those applying to coach)
Have an active M-pesa number
How to Apply
Interested parties can send their bids to mate@eurochess.net. Share your rate card for blog posts, video tutorials, and/or hourly rates for chess classes. Remember to include your username for lichess or chess.com . We will authenticate you using lichess or chess.com
In chess, deflection is a tactical maneuver that forces opponent’s piece to leave the square, rank or file it occupies. The primary goal for this move is to expose opponent’s king or a valuable piece. This paves a way for a more advantageous capture or move. The basis of deflection is to ‘threaten’ an important piece, such as a queen or a rook, and then force it to move, leaving other piece(s) vulnerable to capture. This creates a significant material advantage for the player who executes deflection successfully.
A notable aspect of any successful deflection is to create a threat that cannot ignored by an opponent. A player, for instance, may threaten to capture a queen with a minor piece, such as a pawn or even a bishop. This forces the queen to move and exposing another piece. In this scenario, a player will have to choose between losing the queen and exposing another piece. In turn, this gives the player who makes the threat a tactical advantage.
The power of deflection in chess
Deflection is a versatile tactic in chess gaming. It that works perfectly in multiple instances and against players of all skill levels. It however, requires careful planning and evaluation before execution. A player needs to anticipate and predict the opponent’s moves and understand the position of the pieces on the board. Additionally, they must also be aware of potential counter-play from the opponent and be prepared to deal with it.
Eventually, deflection becomes a valuable tool in the chessboard for players in any skill level. It necessitates meticulous planning, precise execution, and a firm grasp of the position of the pieces on the board. A player can gain a significant advantage and gain control of the game by forcing an opponent’s piece to move away from its intended square. As a result, it is an important concept for chess players to understand and master in order to improve their game and win more matches.
A while back, we conducted a survey among Kenyan youth. We found that six in every ten knew something about 69 and perfectly related to it. However, most did not know that a chessboard normally has 64 pieces. That’s how Eurochess App was born. We have built a platform to teach people how to play chess and make money from it. Eurochess gives you the opportunity and freedom to learn, practice and play chess online and earn from your chess skills. We pay you for every checkmate you deliver because every checkmate counts!
Learning Center
We have an incredible pool of chess-learning materials which can promote you from a beginner to a chess grandmaster in two weeks. Exploit our unlimited daily puzzles and a playground where you can play against yourself or our bots to sharpen your skills for free. Our puzzles collection cuts across all themes, from opening, deflection, back rank mate, to defence and end game, and much more. We also have hundreds of thousands of previously played chess games which you can replay and watch anytime for free to learn the best moves from experts.
Eurochess Learning Center
The learning center has four sections:
Over the board: Lets you play against yourself on both sides of the chessboard.
Watch games: Lets you replay and watch thousands of previously played games at your preferred speed and chess skill level.
Practice: This option lets you practice your chess skills in action. You will be paired to play at your preferred skill level and pace against our bots which run on the stockfish engine.
Puzzles: Allows you to solve an unlimited number of daily puzzles to sharpen your skills. The puzzles are selected randomly from multiple and different themes and skill levels. However, you can use puzzle filters to select preferred puzzles.
Puzzle filter
Live Gaming
Our platform has two sections: a learning center and live gaming section. We urge everyone to use our learning center first because playing live games. However, if you have prior chess experience from other platforms, you can go straight to the live gaming section to accept or create game challenges.
At Eurochess, you don’t beat people for free. You get paid for every checkmate you deliver because every checkmate counts!
Getting started
Once you are comfortable and ready to play real chess challenges, you need to read, understand, and agree to our terms and conditions, then sign up here. After signing up, you can log in, create or join live public chess challenges, and share the link with opponents. In the former, you can adjust the game time length, visibility, and preferred piece color, then share the challenge link with your friends. Public games will be visible to everyone on Eurochess, and they will be able to join. If you wish to play with a specific opponent, create a private challenge, then share the link with them.
Creating a live chess challenge
Wallet and Escrow
Once you sign up, your Eurochess wallet gets activated immediately, and it can receive Eurochess coin deposits. The next step is to purchase Eurochess coins to top up your Eurochess wallet. This will enable you to create, join/accept real chess challenges. One Eurochess coin is equivalent to KES 50. Currently, we are only accepting deposits through M-PESA as we test other payment gateways.
On our platform, you need at least one Eurochess coin to play with friends or random players online. When two players challenge each other, we debit(deduct) each player one Eurochess coin and hold the coins in our Escrow account. On checkmate, whoever wins gets two coins. The loser doesn’t get back their coin. In case of a draw, each player gets back their coin.
As a result, this model makes our platform a micro-escrow service for online chess players.
Conversion and Withdrawals
You can convert your Eurochess coins back to Kenya Shillings at the same rate of 1 Eurochess coin= KES 50 and withdraw instantly to your M-PESA wallet. However, the minimum number of coins eligible for withdrawal is 4 Eurochess coins. Again, the applicable taxes will be deducted on Withdrawal.
Limitations & Upgrades
To prevent addiction, users will only be limited to a maximum of 5 games per day. If you wish to play more than 5 games per day, you can upgrade your account here to access higher limits. Premium accounts will get additional benefits such as preference and priority in getting paired with random online players as well as getting chess tips based on the games they have played.
Personalization
You can personalize your Eurochess UI by switching between multiple chessboard themes and piece skins. You can also adjust piece animation, among other settings, to personalize the UI and get the best experience on Eurochess.
Eurochess personalization
Let’s do this
Now, Let’s play chess – The king of all games in history.
In addition to the chess learning and escrow modules, we are also building EuroCAP- the first-ever chess-based Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) for nerdy websites.
This will enable websites to authenticate real users by availing of a simple chess test. Our API will render a pop-up modal box where the challenge will be displayed on external websites interested in using our chess-based CAPTCHA.
Version 1.0 of EuroCAP is being tested, and we shall make a public announcement once it’s ready for use.
