Real opponent. Real stake. Locked before move one. Winner takes it home.
Fund within 24 hours, before the first move. No funded board, no game. If it never funds, the board cancels and deposits come right back.
Checkmate, resignation, or a 72-hour walk away. The board decides and the contract pays. Both stakes, straight to the winner.
Stalemate, threefold repetition, the fifty-move rule, or too few pieces to mate. Both stakes go back in full. Minus nothing.
One board, one stake, matched exactly. No haggling at this table.
No engines, no advice, no second pair of hands. Rated chess is your own mind or nothing.
Every staked board moves your ELO. Bot games are free practice: never rated, never staked.
Rated matches run on a 72-hour move clock, the only clock here until blitz and rapid arrive. Let it run out and your opponent claims the board. That's a loss, on the board and on the books.
We never hold your money. Stakes move from your wallet to the contract, and from the contract to the winner. We can't touch them in between. The contract won't let us.
Standard chess rules on every board. Every result, stake, and payout is recorded on-chain, where anyone can verify it. Gas fees apply to deposits.