For company teams
Not in the same office.
In the same game.
Board & Pieces gives a team spread across an office, a few homes and more than one time zone a game to share: chess, backgammon, go and eight more, one move a day, from wherever each person works. Whoever would like to play joins; nobody has to.
Monday
One link in the team channel.
You set up your team’s community in the app and post its link where the team already talks. Whoever would like to play joins in one tap. Whoever would rather not simply doesn’t, and nothing anywhere shows who stayed out.
What the team sees
Your team’s
ledger.
This is the app’s real screen, recorded as it runs. Everyone in the community sees the same page, including whoever set it up.
- 1Who’s aheadThe season’s standings and last season’s champion. Every season starts level, so someone who joined this week is in the running too.
- 2RematchesWho has played whom, and who took the last one. The next challenge is always one tap away.
- 3Only your teamPeople join through the link you share in the team channel. If you prefer, every request waits for your approval.
Good to know
Common questions,
short answers.
- Is this one more thing everyone has to do?
- No. Joining is each person’s own choice. Nobody is asked to explain, and nobody appears anywhere as missing: the community shows the people who joined, and only them.
- Does it take working time?
- Very little. Whoever opens a game chooses its pace, and one move a day is the default; a move fits in the minute before a call. Each person decides whether to receive notifications.
- What can the company see?
- Only what every member of the community sees: the team’s own ledger of games and the season’s standings. There are no reports on individuals and no dashboard for managers. Chat opens only if both players accept it, and anyone can be blocked and reported in one tap.
- What about colleagues who do not play chess?
- There are eleven games, and several are learned in minutes: backgammon, nine men’s morris, oware. Each one has a short lesson in the app, and a short story of where it comes from.
- We are a large company. Where do we start?
- With one team. Each team sets up its own community, with its own link and its own seasons; another team can start one whenever it likes.
- Does it cost employees anything?
- No. The app is free and has no ads, and the community’s games are covered by your team’s subscription. Nobody pays for anything themselves.
- What happens after the free season?
- If the team would like to continue, you start the team’s subscription. If not, there is nothing to cancel, and the ledger stays where it is.
Setting it up
Ten minutes,
four steps.
- 1Get the appFree on iPhone and Android.
- 2Set up the team’s communityGive it the team’s name, enter your first-season code and choose the season: one month or three.
- 3Share the linkPost it once in the team channel. Whoever would like to join, joins.
- 4Open the first gameChallenge a colleague yourself, ideally one you rarely get to talk to.
The first season is on us
Try one season,
let the team decide.
Tell us your team’s name and we text you the code for its first season. No card, and no call unless you ask for one.