Ultimate Battle has launched an independent interface for chess on its platform for the dedicated community to not only play for fun but compete against the best in the business.

Chess featured among the top three preferred games opted by players on its platform, in a recent study conducted by Ultimate Battle. Close to a lakh gamers’ preferences were studied by UB, which traditionally has been a destination for playing action-packed games with high-end graphics.

Garena Free Fire topped the list as the most played game with 40% preference, while with 30% players preferring, Call of Duty is the second most played game. And a surprise third name on the list with 20% of the players sampled opting has been for the chequered board game, while other games put together made the last 10% on the platform.

Tarun Gupta, Founder, Ultimate Battle, said, “Chess is an age-old game which is played by people of all age groups. We thought of giving this community an altogether premium experience and hence, we launched chess as separate property and not dilute the audience experience with other games. We also have created leader-boards for the community to compete professionally and the aim is to find the champion players eventually.”

After a successful testing phase, with 3,000 gamers in January this year, the UB chess platform has already built a strong community of more than 27,000 regular users. The platform has witnessed maximum engagement from the age group between 18 and 21, close to about 53%.

Currently, three chess tournaments are organized daily along with hundreds of one-on-one challenge matches regularly.

The ranking system is in place too, as part of the automated leader board based on the performances of the players. It also has prize money for the winners.

The platform also launched its app recently on Google Play Store and till now has seen over 32,000 downloads already.