nearChess: Chess Club & Rating
Tournaments, puzzles, friends
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
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
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.
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The developer, nearChess, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
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- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- CATALAN SPORTS PRIVATE LIMITED
- Size
- 145.4 MB
- Category
- Board
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Catalan Sports Pvt Ltd