Step 01
Pick Your Club
Your club defines your board, your style, and your place in the competition. Bitcoinia and Etheryst lead the launch, with more clubs to follow.
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Competitive online chess with a layer of collectible Battle Cards. Full rules preserved, themed clubs, real progression tied to your account. Pick your club. Play to win.
The same rules you already know — with a layer of Battle Cards that reward skill instead of replacing it.
Your club defines your board, your style, and your place in the competition. Bitcoinia and Etheryst lead the launch, with more clubs to follow.
Before each match, equip a small set of Battle Cards to your pieces — each tied to a piece type. Declare it. Play it. Watch it land.
Standard rules, legal moves only. Cards swing a minority of evenly-matched games. The better chess player wins — always.
Wins build your rating, unlock new tiers, and grow your collection. Every win counts; every loss teaches.
Leaping Strike, armed and fired — one capture, one counter blocked, one knight left standing.
Two clubs lead the launch — each with its own board, identity, and community. More arrive over time.
Free to play, with an optional one-time founding-member purchase. No gimmicks, no surprises.
Yes — standard rules, real rating, the game you already know. The Battle Cards are an optional layer on top: play with them on, or play straight chess anytime. Skill is always what decides the game.
No — think Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken: all are fighting games, but nobody calls one a clone of the other. Chess.com and Anichess are great in their own right, and we love them. ChessVS is real chess with its own layer on top — a strategic Battle Card system, clubs to fight for, and content that's yours to keep. Same genre, different game.
Never. Chess skill decides who wins — every card that affects a game is earnable through play, and the top tiers are reached by rating, not a credit card. We track and enforce it every season.
Free to play. All you need is an email and a browser — no download, no subscription. The only optional step is a one-time founding-member registration. No gimmicks, no surprises.
Join the waitlist. Invites go out in waves — when your slot opens you'll get a link to jump in early and help shape the game before it opens to everyone.
The two clubs leading the launch — rival teams you can join and compete for. Pick a side and it becomes your identity in the game. More clubs follow.
A one-time step to reserve your username, claim your digital starter content, and lock in founding status. Optional and one-time — the earliest players in get permanent recognition that never comes around again.
A small, independent team that ships fast and builds in the open with its players. Chess players first — every decision starts with the person who shows up wanting a great game of chess.
Reserve your username and join the founding roster — the first players in get permanent recognition.
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