Anichess is a subsidiary of Animoca Brands that is developing an innovative and community-driven chess experience. At the center of this experience is a free-to-play game that combines traditional chess's core values with added strategic layers through innovative spell mechanics. We are driven by innovation, inclusivity, and community empowerment, continuously striving to create a platform that preserves the rich heritage of chess while constantly pushing the boundaries of the game.
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Anichess launched Season 10: Ascension, its chess-with-spells season with 300,000 $CHECK on the line, headlined by The Masters League — a round robin of best-of-five matches between the eight best players for 100,000 $CHECK and the carryable Masters title, which this season's edition crowns for the first time. The top 4 keep their seats into next season while 4 new players earn their way in each season.
Season 10 is live, and the first Playoff Qualifier is running as a free-to-enter event: pick 3 spells, play 3+3 games, and the top 30 earn Playoff Points toward the 64 seats in the Seasonal Playoffs, with 2,000 $CHECK on the table.
Round 1 of the Gambit Series opened in Anichess, giving players six days to compete. Each match costs 100 $CHECK to enter and scores 100 points; a 3-win streak adds 100 more points, and 10,000 $CHECK goes to the round's leaderboard winner.
The series spans 4 rounds, and the two best players across all rounds skip the queue into the Seasonal Playoffs. Official announcement
Anichess has gone live with a Contributor Leaderboard, tracking community contributions to the game. Per a retweet of @MindGames_AI, the board is already active, and every referral made since Monday is being counted on it.
Anichess has clarified the details behind its M8 migration to Base: every M8 balance is divided by 100, and any balance left below 5 is topped up to 5 so players don't arrive on Base with negligible holdings. The game says the shrink makes sense because the shop is coming soon and nobody wants to pay gas on tiny balances.
This accompanies the broader September 7 deadline for the main migration, which converts every 100 M8 on Abstract to 1 M8 on Base.
Anichess released a major update packed with community-requested features, announced via its official X account. The patch adds a board editor with a Cosmetics → Showroom option, a photo mode that hides the interface for clean board shots, spell difficulty indicators on the preview screen, and past results for every event on the game's site.
The update continues Anichess's ongoing UI and quality-of-life improvements as its season and between-season events progress.
Anichess has enabled drag & drop interactions in the game, announced via its official X account. The feature lets players drag and drop game elements directly rather than clicking, part of the game's ongoing UI and controls updates as its season and events progress.
Anichess announced two new between-season events. Spellstorm runs Wednesday for two hours with free entry, where the game picks your spells each match, offering a 2,000 $CHECK prize pool.
Gambit Gauntlet debuts Friday 21:00 HKT / 13:00 UTC as a 24-hour event with a dedicated leaderboard, and the platform fee is cut from 15% to 8% for it. In the first Gauntlet, every match earns 50 points and a 3-win streak adds 50 more; when the clock runs out, the top 30 players split 10,000 $CHECK. Buy-in is 50 $CHECK per match.
Anichess also published a dedicated tournament rules and regulations page covering official event conduct, scoring, and FAQs for players entering its Gauntlet and Spellstorm competitions.
Anichess now lets players pre-register for upcoming game events directly on its website, ahead of the announcement. The feature appears tied to the game's between-season events and its planned return to Base, giving players a way to sign up in advance.
Anichess launched its $CHECK token (fixed supply of 1 billion) as the core 'Strategy Token' of the Checkmate Ecosystem, going live on the Base blockchain; the following day Anichess announced it was integrating CHECK as its native token.
Anichess launched its first official NFT collection, Genesis Ethernals, a free mint of 960 NFTs (only Ethereum gas fees required) dedicated to loyal players and early contributors.
Anichess launched the public alpha version of its game, introducing player-versus-player (PvP) matches, AI training modes, and new game modes such as ranked, quick, friend, and bot match.
Anichess announced the completion of a US$1.8 million funding round led by Sfermion and Amber Group, with participation from Fenbushi Capital, Aspen Digital, SNZ Capital, and others, to continue developing the game.
Animoca Brands launched the first phase of Anichess, a free-to-play chess strategy game developed in partnership with Chess.com and Magnus Carlsen, offering free single-player spell-chess puzzles at anichess.com; player-versus-player was planned for Q1 2024.
Anichess, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, announced the completion of an oversubscribed seed round that raised US$1.5 million from GameFi Ventures, The Operating Group, Koda Capital, Bing Ventures, 708 Capital, Asymmetry Capital, and others.
Animoca Brands and its subsidiary Lympo announced the development of Anichess in partnership with Play Magnus Group, describing a blockchain-based chess game with a play-and-earn ecosystem that was planned to launch in 2023.