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.