Checkmate is a new play-to-earn platform solely focused on producing
and promoting Chess tournaments for a new generation of players.
At the heart of our platform is an NFT collectible card game and XR
lead esports programme.
How to earn with checkmate?
play chess
EARN REWARDS
Trade cards
Monetize them
design sets
Sell them
stream chess
ENGAGE FANS
To join our founders sale
Chess is the world's biggest game with an estimated 700 Million players. Its player base is bigger than football, bigger than a League of Legends, even bigger than Fortnite.
Lil Mates first mint
Lil’ Mates Avatars are six NFT 3D Metaverse ready characters with 202 traits developed for creators and players who play to win. 26,825 Avatars will be released for our Founders sale and 3,175 are reserved for future promotions and drops in our Checkmate Founder First Mint Card packs. The characters are based on the pieces in a game of Chess and loosely based on the origin story of the Checkmate Founding team.
Founders Round table
Join our round table, help us craft a win-win and secure the following suite of first-mover benefits:
- 20% of Founders sales to the Community Treasury
- 50% OF SECONDARY SALES COMMISSION AWARDED TO COMMUNITY TREASURY
- Founders Whitelist for future drops
- Founders only Discord Channel
- Founder voting on commissioned designers
- Founder voting on Checkmate scholarships
- Founder voting on our feature and project roadmap
DROP 1 LIVE2D AVATARS WITH TRAITS
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drop 2 3d avatars with traits
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LIL’ MATES
Purchase a Lil’ Mate and join us on a our journey and unlock the
following exclusive founder benefits:
20% of Founders sales to the Community Treasury and Prize Pool
50% of CM secondary sales share awarded to the Community Treasury and Prize Pool
First-time holders receive .05% of assets card value for life
Founders Whitelist for future drops
Founders Discord Channel
Lil’ Mates 3D Avatars
Lil’ Mates P2P Avatar
Lil’ Mate AR/VR ready avatar
Exclusive Founder Avatars Traits
Exclusive Founder Background
Special ‘Founder’ identifiers in community channels and in-game
VIP only event and tournament invitations
Double XP Boost token
Early access to new games, beta versions and expansions
Free NFT & new avatar airdrops
Founder In-game quests
White list pre-sales
Founders first mint
Our First Mint set is a limited edition set of 212 cards for early adopters and fans of Chess and NFT’s. They will never be reprinted and contain cards that cannot be obtained otherwise. Checkmate First edition cards feature the story and worlds of the Checkmate Lil’ Mates by comic artist Rodrigo Lorenzo, with future editions featuring community, commissioned artists and partner collabs.
NFT cards are a key feature of Checkmate and esports season competitive calendar. Completing a set of cards unlocks exclusive rewards, prizes and ongoing partner benefits. Holding cards earns holders additional rewards and gains interest for the community treasury.
Cards will be sold until we reach 33,333 ETH in sales.
Collectible Card Packs
Purchase a Checkmate First edition pack and not only own a piece of
history but unlock the following exclusive founder benefits:
20% of Founders sales to the Community Treasury and Prize Pool
50% of CM secondary sales share awarded to the Community Treasury and Prize Pool
First-time holders receive .05% of assets card value for life
Founders Whitelist for future drops
Founders Discord Channel
Avatars randomly hidden in Pack
1/10 Gold Lil' Mates Avatars
Avatars Traits
Founder Background for Avatars
Special "Founder" identifiers in community channels and in-game
VIP Only Event and Tournament Invitations
Early access to new games, beta versions and expansions
Free NFT Airdrops
Founder In-game Quests
Future White list pre-sales
Founders Cards
Founder Metabits [In-Game Currency]
Shiny Cards drop
Guaranteed Founder Shiny Cards
Founders Chess Set
High Roller Chess Set
Metacube Chess Set
Founders In-Game Badge
Founders Emoji
XP Boost Token Reward for Holders
Wheel of Fortune Tokens [per month]
Season Pass Bundle
Additional traits for use when live
* Checkmate Season pass required to redeem in-game Assets, must be redeemed by December 31, 2022. **Season Pass and Tier Skips will be accessible once the Season 1 Battle Pass is made available in-game. Season Pass redemption applies to one season of Checkmate only.
Founder Collectible Card Packs
Secure your place on board
Don’t miss the exclusive first edition Mint of Checkmate Collectible NFT cards. These limited edition Founder packs are only available prior to season one. Founder cards unlock exclusive rewards, hidden Lil' Mates Avatars and special traits.
Artwork reveal
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PRICE
DROP DETAILS
- 1 Founder cards
- 10 Founder shards
- Guaranteed Shiny Cards: 0
- Shiny cards odds: 0.01
- 4 Founder cards
- 50 Founder shards
- Guaranteed Shiny Cards: 0
- Shiny cards odds: 0.2
- 14 Founder cards
- 200 Founder shards
- Guaranteed Shiny Cards: 1
- 70 Founder cards
- 1300 Founder shards
- Guaranteed Shiny Cards: 8
King
Queen
Knight
Bishops
Rooks
Community Treasury
The Checkmate and Lil’ Mates Treasuries receive:
Drops
Sales
Yields
The community treasury has 4 pools:
- 50%Player Prize Pool
Game and Major Prize Pool
- 20%Creator and Sponsorship Pool
Commissioned artwork and general sponsorships
- 20%Scholarship Pool
Sponsored players and creators
- 10%Administration
Admin and community bounty payments
Total Prize Pool
Counter
High Stakes Pro-Am Esports Series
There can only be one King [or Queen] in the great game but in a decentralized world, even our pawns can get a shot at the throne. Our esports programme consists of four major events a year, three grand slams and a world cup outside the standard daily, weekly and monthly tournaments.
Each event features Checkmate’s top-ranking community players, esports and sports franchises and a few of our better-known mates competing for cash, gold and glory.
Season 1
Jan - Mar, 2023
Grand Slam
USD 50,000
Season 2
Apr - Jun, 2023
Grand Slam
USD 50,000
Season 3
Jul - Sep, 2023
Grand Slam
USD 50,000
Season 4
Oct - Dec, 2023
World Cup
USD 200,000
Season Length
4 seasons x 10 weeks
Prize Pool
The minimum prize pool is seeded by the Community Treasury
All players have another golden opportunity to earn a shot at the title with 3 Golden tickets hidden in card packs each season. These coveted cards can be used to secure a slot in a major event, leased to a guild or sold to the highest bidder.
chess: live from the metaverse
Chess like you have never seen before…
XR (Extended Reality) is the engine of metaverse and synthetic broadcasts. Our XR R&D partners are at the forefront of this new media revolution and working with us to bridge chess, esports, mixed reality and the metaverse. We’re excited to unveil in time what we have been towards -
We’re delighted to be working with VADR and Checkmate as part of the R&D team as they push XRand the Metaverse envelope in the world of play-to earn gaming, major events and synthetic broadcasts. They have made some visionary calls that are coming to fruition as we speak. We’re excited about their forward roadmap, ambitions and are proud to be an R&D partner.
Fernando Kufer
We’re delighted to be working with VADR and Checkmate as part of the R&D team as they push XRand the Metaverse envelope in the world of play-to earn gaming, major events and synthetic broadcasts. They have made some visionary calls that are coming to fruition as we speak. We’re excited about their forward roadmap, ambitions and are proud to be an R&D partner.
Fernando Kufer
We’re delighted to be working with VADR and Checkmate as part of the R&D team as they push XRand the Metaverse envelope in the world of play-to earn gaming, major events and synthetic broadcasts. They have made some visionary calls that are coming to fruition as we speak. We’re excited about their forward roadmap, ambitions and are proud to be an R&D partner.
Fernando Kufer
our partners
We've roped in some of our other mates to build the best experience possible:
checkmate features
Our team are old hands at building and running esports tournament platforms. We’ve mapped out a roadmap that empowers our community.
players
- You can monetize your time with P2E
- Own your digital assets
- Buy, trade and sell your hard-earned winnings
- Win cash and in-kind prizes
- Faster payouts and bigger prizes
- Fairplay Anti-cheat
- Televised competitions to increase your exposure
- Personalise your experience
- Battle your mates
Creators & Streamers
- Design and sell your own Chess sets
- Create content with your Metaverse ready Lil ’mate
- Sell CM collectible cards to your fans and earn
- Reward your fans with collectables and in-game credit
- Run your own tournament
- Access the community API
- Embed in your website
organisers
- Simple and transparent prize pool distribution
- Own your digital assets
- The ability to provide rev-shares to players, the prize pool, charity and the tournament organizer
- The ability to sell Checkmate or custom DLC to your audience directly
- Real-time reporting
fair play
- Cheaters and bad sports never win here.
- Our proprietary ML cheat-detection system analyzes every game for bots and signs of cheating, during games and before prizes are awarded.
- This is augmented with supervision by our integrity team, ESIC oversight and gaze tracking and KYC to ensure community integrity.
Multichain eco-system
Checkmate is powered by Efinity, Efinity is a next-generation blockchain for NFTs, developed on Polkadot. As a scalable cross-chain network, it will support tokens from any blockchain.
Zero-fee Minting
Pay for the asset not the service
no gas
Zero gas fees for instant peer-to-peer trading
carbon negative
All In-game transactions are carbon negative
smarter contracts
We are powered by Efinity
LAunch roadmap
DIscord Community GIveaway
Pawn Giveaway
Bishop Giveaway
Knight Giveaway
Rook Giveaway
Queen Giveaway
King Giveaway
Launch Questions
What is Checkmate?
Checkmate is a new play-to-earn platform solely focused on producing and promoting Chess tournaments for a new generation of players. At the heart of our web and mobile-based Chess is an NFT collectible card game within a game and an XR backed esports programme.
Do you have a whitelist?
Checkmate is a new play-to-earn platform solely focused on producing and promoting Chess tournaments for a new generation of players. At the heart of our web and mobile-based Chess is an NFT collectible card game within a game and an XR backed esports programme.
What’s a mate?
Checkmate is a new play-to-earn platform solely focused on producing and promoting Chess tournaments for a new generation of players. At the heart of our web and mobile-based Chess is an NFT collectible card game within a game and an XR backed esports programme.
Will you have a pre-sale to reward early supporters?
Checkmate is a new play-to-earn platform solely focused on producing and promoting Chess tournaments for a new generation of players. At the heart of our web and mobile-based Chess is an NFT collectible card game within a game and an XR backed esports programme.
When is the Checkmate pre-sale and public sale?
Checkmate is a new play-to-earn platform solely focused on producing and promoting Chess tournaments for a new generation of players. At the heart of our web and mobile-based Chess is an NFT collectible card game within a game and an XR backed esports programme.
How much to mint a set?
Checkmate is a new play-to-earn platform solely focused on producing and promoting Chess tournaments for a new generation of players. At the heart of our web and mobile-based Chess is an NFT collectible card game within a game and an XR backed esports programme.
I’ve never used crypto, what do I do, I don’t want to miss out?
Checkmate is a new play-to-earn platform solely focused on producing and promoting Chess tournaments for a new generation of players. At the heart of our web and mobile-based Chess is an NFT collectible card game within a game and an XR backed esports programme.
Is there a real company behind Checkmate?
Checkmate is a new play-to-earn platform solely focused on producing and promoting Chess tournaments for a new generation of players. At the heart of our web and mobile-based Chess is an NFT collectible card game within a game and an XR backed esports programme.
What’s special about Checkmate vs other NFT’s out there?
Checkmate is a new play-to-earn platform solely focused on producing and promoting Chess tournaments for a new generation of players. At the heart of our web and mobile-based Chess is an NFT collectible card game within a game and an XR backed esports programme.
What are royalty fees?
Checkmate is a new play-to-earn platform solely focused on producing and promoting Chess tournaments for a new generation of players. At the heart of our web and mobile-based Chess is an NFT collectible card game within a game and an XR backed esports programme.
Where will I find updates about the project?
Checkmate is a new play-to-earn platform solely focused on producing and promoting Chess tournaments for a new generation of players. At the heart of our web and mobile-based Chess is an NFT collectible card game within a game and an XR backed esports programme.