32 light boxes, 32 dark boxes. Knights, rooks, bishops… For centuries, the recipe for success in chess has remained unchanged and digital technology only played a role very late with the creation in 2007 of Chess.comthe application with 100 million downloads.
It is this playground that has invested Immortal Game, the start-up created two years ago by three French people. With a new angle: add to a normal game additional quests, which come to improve the success of a player if they are correctly accomplished. All thanks to NFTs, these non-fungible tokens registered in the blockchain.
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Concretely, by aligning on his chessboard a pawn, a rook or an NFT queen that he bought on Immortal Game, the player will be assigned a mission which will earn him additional points. Finish the game without losing the collector pawn, for example. These points, added to those he wins by subduing the opponent, give rise to rewards in cryptocurrencies, which the user can cash in or invest in new coins.
The start-up, which raised 15.5 million euros last year, held its basic concept. All that remained was for him to add new features to make his app an essential platform in the world of chess. Its co-founder Thomas Zaepffel, guest of 20 Mint au carré on June 13, details his roadmap in the replay above.