Some events don’t announce themselves with noise. They begin as a quiet opening—a desire to test a system, a community, yourself. That’s how the first volume of the Infernal Chess Masters emerged at P2E Inferno. Not as a grand production, but as a deliberate experiment in discipline, structure, and the simple beauty of tactics displayed across a board.

I’ve always believed that the board reveals the truth in people. It sharpens intention. It exposes passive play. It rewards calculation. Watching this tournament unfold reminded me again how much the game mirrors the inner landscape: the complex variations, the moments of stillness before seizing the initiative, and the subtle positional victories won in silence long before the final move appears.

Over two days—November 21st and 22nd, 2025—sixteen players stepped into a knockout gauntlet. No second chances. No takebacks. Day one carried them through the Round of 16 and into the Quarterfinals, simplifying the position and cutting the field by half as the pressure began to take form.

Day two carried a different energy: tighter focus, more deliberate maneuvering, and a sense of inevitability settling over the room like a forced mate. The Semifinals sharpened the field to its final edge, and the last matches—including the third-place playoff—held the tension of an endgame where every square mattered.

In the end, three players converted their advantage and rose from the field:

1st Place – Princewillchi (33,750 DG)
Txn: https://basescan.org/tx/0x21ce2d8696fc0c066629cc9125cb72ede0f89c88eccbb9e09d03e1833fda3d86

2nd Place – Ellazero (26,250 DG)
Txn: https://basescan.org/tx/0x13e1e33c743d083c7a61a76d1e14febd6f3afeaf5fa800425a4bd7654c390917

3rd Place – 0xJonaseb11 (15,000 DG)
Txn: https://basescan.org/tx/0x06e04813ba598aacf90f8d94721c072152fca555c4f3d55c0116c21aa8b437a6

Each transfer was more than a reward — it was a recorded acknowledgment of effort, a digital imprint of victory, a small piece of truth etched on-chain.

We hosted registration through teerex.live, our own Web3-native ticketing platform.
The games themselves unfolded on chess.com, familiar terrain to many.

This is the bridge we’ve been building—a doorway between worlds where newcomers can approach the blockchain not through abstract explanation, but through experience. NFT tickets, DG token rewards, and wallet setup became natural extensions of participation.

The blockchain wasn’t a barrier in this event. It was the invisible architecture supporting it.

In watching these matches, I was reminded of something I often write to myself:

The path is always littered with distractions, temptations, and moments where you can lose yourself. But clarity is found in movement — in acting with intention, even when the field is uncertain.

This tournament revealed a community willing to move.
Willing to learn.
Willing to step into new structures and carry themselves with discipline.

And for a first volume, that is more than enough.

We’re preparing for the next tournament—a sharper version, refined by what we’ve learned here. If something in this reflection speaks to you, if you feel the quiet pull of competition or the desire to sharpen your mind the way fire tempers steel, then perhaps you belong in the next bracket.

Join the waitlist for Infernal Chess Masters v2 Now:

Join the Waitlist on the Infernal Chess Masters v1 event on Teerex.live to get notified when registrations for vol. 2 go live

The board will be set soon.
Consider this your invitation. Your move.