nearChess: Chess Club & Rating

Chess that counts. Play someone across a real board, scan a QR code, and the game is rated. Your in-person record is the one rating nobody can farm — because you had to show up. nearChess is a complete chess platform for web, Android and iPhone. One account everywhere. No paid tier, no move limits, nothing locked behind a subscription. ♟️ THE IN-PERSON RATING - Meet someone, scan a QR code, and play a rated game across a real board - Build a record: games played, opponents faced, cities played in - Earn the OTB Rated badge after 5 games against 5 different opponents - Kept separate from your online rating, because facing someone in person is a different thing ♟️ PLAY ONLINE - Bullet, blitz, rapid and daily correspondence chess - Real-time matchmaking against players at your level - Play friends any time, or play the computer at any strength - Chess960, premoves, increment, rematches and running rivalries ♟️ EVERY GAME REVIEWED, FREE - A full engine review of every game you play - Every move graded, the turning point named, the better line shown - Explore any variation on the board - An AI coach and a weekly report on what to work on next - All of it free, with no limits ♟️ TRAIN ON YOUR OWN MISTAKES - Daily puzzles and Puzzle Rush - A personal training set built from the positions you actually got wrong - Opening explorer and a full analysis board with engine - Your openings, your weaknesses, your progress ♟️ CLUBS, ACADEMIES AND CITY LEADERBOARDS - Join or create a chess club, with members, chat, posts and a ladder - Academies and college societies can run their whole group in one place - City leaderboards, so you can see where you rank where you live - Online tournaments, arena and Swiss, with proper pairing and tiebreaks ♟️ FOR COACHES AND ORGANISERS - One invite link brings a whole class or society in - See every student's games, mistakes and progress in one roster - Run tournaments for your own group - Coach tools are on the web at nearchess.com ♟️ SAFE FOR YOUNGER PLAYERS - Parental controls and per-feature limits - Content filtering on chat - Your games stay yours: download any game as PGN whenever you want WHO IS IT FOR? - Anyone who plays chess in person and wants it to count - Academy and college students who want a ladder and a record - Online players who want free game review without a subscription - Coaches and organisers running a group Download nearChess, and make your games count.