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.
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.
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.
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.
Let’s do this
Now, Let’s play chess – The king of all games in history.