About ChessTV
Chess should feel live, human, and easy to enter.
ChessTV is a platform for chess with camera, voice, and emotion. The core idea is simple: when two people play online, the board should not feel isolated from the players. The clock, camera, chat, moves, reactions, and room history should live together.
ChessTV is social chess with real presence. You can meet someone new through random matchmaking, share the tension and humor of a live game, connect when the interaction clicks, and challenge each other again. Private rooms remain available when you already know whom you want to play.
Camera beside the board
The player is visible while the board, moves, clocks, voice, and controls stay central.
Meet people through chess
Random matchmaking brings two eligible players together, while Connections make a good opponent easy to find again.
Games stay in the room
Rematches, results, clocks, reactions, and history remain connected instead of disappearing after one game.
What we are building
A chess room where the players are part of the game.
Random matchmaking
Meet another player who wants a face-to-face game right now.
Connections
Connect after an enjoyable game, see when that player is online, and challenge them later.
Game offers
Players choose time control and color before a game starts.
Live play
The board, cameras, voice, chat, clocks, draw offers, resignations, and game history live together.
Founder
Built from a lifelong relationship with chess.
ChessTV was founded by Nihad Ibrahimli, who grew up in a small town in Azerbaijan and started playing chess at the age of five through a free, community-run chess school.
What began as a way to keep a child busy became a foundation for discipline, pressure management, and strategic thinking. Chess opened doors far beyond where he started, and that experience shapes the way ChessTV is being built.
The product combines chess experience with modern software design: make the room clear, make the interaction human, and make the system strong enough for camera-on chess.
Direction
Chess with emotions on camera.
ChessTV starts with the most human version of online chess: two real people seeing each other and playing a real game. The board matters, but so does the face across from it—and the possibility that a stranger becomes a familiar opponent.
The ChessTV idea
To make ChessTV the natural place for social chess with camera and emotion: meet new opponents, share real reactions, connect after good games, build rivalries, and keep the board, time controls, chat, voice, and game history together.
Read more about video chess, playing chess with camera, or the ChessTV FAQ.
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