According to a press release, India’s first-ever one-stop esports platform – Ultimate Battle (UB), had recently conducted a study in order to understand the gaming preferences of users. Under these findings, nearly a lakh gamers’ playing choices were studied and chess came among the top three preferred games that were chosen by players on the UB platform. The popularity of the game of chess prompted 'Ultimate Battle' to launch an independent interface for chess on its platform to not only cater to the dedicated community for the sole purpose of fun but also to compete against the best in the game.

The highly popular esports platform has been a platform for playing several action-packed games crafted with high-end graphics. However, the study conducted showed the gamers’ liking for chess in the list among the top 3 games. Garena Free Fire was first on the list as it was the most played game with 40% preference and with 30% players going with Call of Duty, it proved to be the second most preferred game. The third game, with preference of 20% of the players sampled was the chequered board game of chess whereas other games put together amounted for the 10% on the platform. 

Talking about the launch, Tarun Gupta, Founder of 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 a separate property and not dilute the audience experience with other games. We also have created leaderboards for the community to compete professionally and the aim is to find the champion players eventually.” 

He further added, “However, the rampant rise of online cheating was equally alarming and we wanted to keep the UB platform safe from any such unfair means. Our focus has been to create a very robust technology to counter such incidences and we are glad that the platform has seen a lot of buzz lately.”

After a great experience at the testing phase, with 3000 gamers in January 2021, the Ultimate Battle chess platform has already built a strong community of over 27,000 regular users. The platform has seen the maximum amount of engagement from the age group between 18 and 21, nearly about 53%. Presently, three chess tournaments are held everyday alongside hundreds of one-on-one challenge matches on a regular basis. There is a ranking system too with the automated leader board which is based on the performances of the players. Additionally, it also features prize money for the winners. 

Last month, the platform also launched its app on Google Play Store and till now has enjoyed over 32,000 downloads already.