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Chess
Checkmate the king and the pot is yours. A stalemate or a repeated position is a draw.
The rules in brief
- The board is an eight by eight grid of light and dark squares. You start with sixteen pieces: eight pawns, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, a queen, and a king.
- You win by checkmate. When a king is under attack, that is called check, and the player in check must deal with it at once.
- A pawn that walks all the way to the far end of the board becomes a queen. Over a real board you could choose a rook, a bishop or a knight instead; here it always becomes a queen.
- Some games have no winner, and on Dream Games a drawn game means nobody loses their stake.
How stakes and the fee work
You choose. The smallest allowed stake is 1 USDC and the largest is 10 000 USDC. Both players put up the same amount, and both stakes are held until the match settles.
Nothing to sit down. On a settled match we take 10% of the pot and the winner receives 90%. A draw returns each player their own stake in full and we take nothing at all.
Each player has 10 minutes for the whole of a lobby match. Tournament fixtures run on their own clock, currently 5 minutes a side. A clock that reaches zero loses on time.
Send your balance to any Polygon address you like. The fee is 1% of what you withdraw, the same for everyone, and you see the amount, the fee and what actually lands before you confirm.
Open tournaments
No tournament in this game is open for entries right now.
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- 5 minute chess: tips for beginners
- How a chess match for USDC works, step by step
- Practice is free, and it is where to start