# Chess Universe: Earn While Playing Chess! By [Earn Alliance](https://paragraph.com/@earnalliance) · 2023-03-17 --- > ### Chess, one of the world's oldest and most popular strategy games, is an excellent mental workout. That’s why although it has straightforward rules, it’s arguably a demanding test of tactics, foresight, and mental endurance. Chess is almost never associated with wagering and gambling. But nowadays – with the growth of digital gadgets, chess can be played in more ways than ever before. Heard of a play-to-earn chess game yet? Well here it is! * **Blockchain Platform:** Polygon Blockchain * **Status:** Pre-mint currently available * **Upcoming:** Web3 game release on Stage 4 GAMEPLAY SUMMARY ---------------- Chess Universe is a free-to-play, play-to-earn gamified chess game meant to motivate, guide, and reward players of all ability levels. Just like classic chess, your goal is to “checkmate” your opponent’s king where your opponent cannot make any move to remove the King from check (under potential attack). You can play the game either solo, with friends, or online. Your chess abilities are determined by your ELO, the higher your ELO, the greater your chess abilities and reward. You can boost your ELO by playing and winning against other players. OVERALL IMPRESSION ------------------ Chess is a beautiful game - it has to be to have survived millennia of human civilization and its development. But it’s also agreeable that chess is the type of game that can only be enjoyable if you’re good at it. Grand Masters and those at the top of their game are the ones that can truly appreciate Chess. But if you’re someone that can’t keep up with the action, then chess games can be tedious at best and infuriating at worst. Thankfully, modern game design and a P2E touch has made some improvements. Although this can horrify chess purists, it can make the chess experience more enjoyable for the common crowd. Also, even though modern games are far more sophisticated, at least chess will stay consistent. You won’t hear something like "omg did you hear what they did? They nerfed the knights! now it can't make one of its moves!". Avoiding frustrating changes that can sometimes be experienced in other games. Overall, if you consider playing Chess Universe then you should know that it can be time-consuming and stressful, especially if there’s money at stake. But if chess is one of your hobbies and you genuinely enjoy the game then this is a good opportunity for you to earn in one of the oldest board games around. --- *Originally published on [Earn Alliance](https://paragraph.com/@earnalliance/chess-universe-earn-while-playing-chess)*