8by8verse The Chess Universe
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8by8verse is free of cost.

The app · Free NCR ID · Free Coach desk · Free Organiser desk · Free

A philanthropic project to grow over-the-board chess. One small yearly maintenance fee keeps your record alive.

  • 12 webinars a year with GMs and IMs
  • Your NCR and your tournaments fetched automatically
  • Reports on WhatsApp after every event
  • 100,000+ puzzles
  • Every game analysed
  • and all 15 features

all of it for less than 1 cent a day $3.60 for the whole year, all taxes included

See all 15 features

1,971,653+ players already rated

8by8verse Maintenance · NCR Pro
Less than 1¢ a day $3.60 a year · all taxes included
Valid 12 months Every event · every game

Billed once a year — $3.60, all taxes included · ≈ kr 39 a year in your currency

Free of cost

Free for everyone at the board.

Players

Free
  • Your NCR ID + first rating
  • The Android app
  • A daily puzzle
  • 2 of your own books, free to play
  • All 21 read-outs of your game

Claim your free NCR

Coaches & academies

Free
  • Full academy LMS — no joining fee
  • Auto report cards to parents
  • Every student tracked

Buying NCR Pro for your students? From $3.00 each for 10 or more, down to $1.80 each for 200+ — see the bulk prices.

Open a coach desk

Organisers

Absolutely free
  • Swiss pairings, automatic
  • Registrations & live standings
  • Certificates + NCR for every player
  • No licence fee, no per-event fee
Host a rated tournament
21 read-outs · free
Everything in your free report
All of this comes with your free NCR ID — no card, no catch.
NCR in Classical, Rapid & Blitz
Cross-format carried-over rating
National title + next-title progress
National rank
World rank
FIDE rating shown beside your NCR
Win / draw / loss mix
Score & win-rate %
White vs Black split
Score vs stronger / weaker opponents
Best win — strongest opponent beaten
Strongest opponent you've faced
Average opponent rating
Per-event NCR change (before → after)
Per-game NCR change (± points)
Performance level + career peak
Result vs expectation
Final rank in each event
4-part NCR change breakdown
NCR trajectory (start → now → peak)
Upset / stretch wins
Free, for life — yours to keep. Claim Free NCR →

The one thing that costs money

A yearly maintenance fee.

Continue the journey — every event rated, every game kept.

Absolutely free for

Some players should never be charged. If you are one of them, the fee below is not for you.

  • FIDE classical 2000+Automatic. No paperwork, no application — it appears on your dashboard.
  • State champions — first and secondEvery age category, in both the Open and the Women's section. On producing a certificate — free for a year, renewed each year you do it again.
  • Players with a physical disabilityOn producing a certificate — free for life.
  • EWS category playersOn producing a certificate.
Apply for free access

One tournament entry

One weekend

A single event's fee usually costs more than a whole year of this.

Maintenance fee

NCR Pro

$3.60/yr

Every event you play, rated, analysed and kept. $3.60 for the whole year.

Which works out to

0.99¢

A day. Collected once a year as $3.60/yr.

8by8verse is an individual player's maintained record. Keeping it alive costs real money, every month:

  • Cloud servers & backupsCompute, storage and daily backups — always on.
  • Anthropic API (Claude AI)The AI that reads your games and writes reports in plain words.
  • Meta · WhatsApp Business APIYour report, delivered to your phone the day the event ends.
  • AWS SES emailSign-ins, reports and receipts that actually reach your inbox.
  • Engines & other APIsStockfish-18 compute, push, payments and rating pipelines.
  • Open data sourcesTournament results gathered and cleaned from open sources.
  • GM / IM webinarsProfessional fees for the titled experts who teach every month.
  • Coach-made lessonsStudy material built by real coaches, tuned to your rating.

All of this runs every month. Your $3.60 a year keeps it running.

Your fee maintains your record — and the mission.

Pay maintenance fee · Support 8by8verse

Everything included

One fee. Sixteen things it keeps running.

Your rating, kept alive

  • Auto-rated
  • Events auto-imported
  • WhatsApp report
  • Scoresheet PDF

Every game, understood

  • AI analysis
  • Unlimited engine
  • Games kept for life
  • Head-to-heads

Before you sit down

  • Your playing style
  • Scout opponents
  • Events picked for you
  • Study picks

Practice and learn

  • 100k+ puzzles
  • Interactive books
  • 12 webinars a year
Pay maintenance fee — get all 15 features

$3.60 a year all taxes included · $3.60 for the whole year · unlock your full potential

“8by8verse keeps this free wherever we can — the small fee only covers servers, APIs and the team. When impact funding comes through, we’ll make it free for all over-the-board players.”

Our promise

Pay maintenance fee — $3.60 a year

Billed once a year — $3.60, all taxes included

All taxes are included in the price you see — nothing is added at checkout. Billed once a year.

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