For clubs and associations
One evening a month.
A game every day.
Board & Pieces keeps your club at the table between meetings. Members play each other on their phones, one move a day, from home, from work, from another country. The season runs all month, and the next meeting opens with a champion.
Meeting night
The QR goes round the room.
That evening you set up your club’s community in the app. Its link goes to the members’ group chat, and the QR is passed from hand to hand around the table. Anyone who would like to join does, in one tap.
What your members see
Your club’s
ledger.
This is the app’s real screen, recorded as it runs.
- 1Who’s aheadThe season’s standings and the last champion. Every season starts level, so a member who joined at the last meeting is in the race too.
- 2RematchesWho has played whom, and who took the last one. Plenty to talk about at the next meeting.
- 3Members onlyPeople join through the link you share. If you prefer, every request waits for your approval.
Good to know
Common questions,
short answers.
- I run the club in my spare time. Is this more work?
- No. The season closes by itself, the champion is announced by itself, and the next season starts by itself. There is no score to keep; the ledger keeps it for you.
- What about members who are not used to apps?
- Every game has a short lesson in the app, and a slow game asks for one move at a time, whenever it suits them. The app is in 15 languages, so everyone can play in the one they feel most at home in.
- Who can join our community?
- Only people who have your link or have scanned your QR. If you prefer, every request to join waits for your approval.
- How is our members’ privacy protected?
- Your community is seen only by the people in it. Chat opens only if both players accept it, and anyone can be blocked and reported in one tap. The app carries no ads.
- We are not a chess club. Is it still for us?
- Yes. There are eleven games, from backgammon and oware to go and nine men’s morris, and several are learned in minutes. And the point is not the game: it is your members, playing each other between meetings.
- Does it cost our members anything?
- No. The app is free and has no ads, and your community’s games are covered by your club’s subscription.
- What happens after the free season?
- If you would like to carry on, you start your club’s subscription. If not, there is nothing you need to do, and your ledger stays where it is.
Setting it up
Ten minutes,
four steps.
- 1Get the appFree on iPhone and Android.
- 2Set up your club’s communityGive it your club’s name, enter your first-season code and choose the season: one month or three.
- 3Share the linkPost it in the members’ group chat, or show the QR at the meeting.
- 4Open the first gameChallenge a member yourself, right there at the table. The rest follows.
The first season is on us
Try it for a season,
let your members decide.
Tell us your club’s name and we text you the code for your first season. No card, and no call unless you ask for one.