lightchess

This is a chess game that supports playing over local network

• You can play any casual game or
• You can host a tournament and compete with other players

Features

• Currently the open tournament format is available
• Your login password is hashed with sha256
• Your elo will be updated after playing a match
• You can check your elo, matchs won and other info in the dashboard
• You can host and play in tournaments
• While running the client you can input the ip or domain name of the server as program arguments, allowing you to play in multiple servers

Login page

Dashboard

User Statistics

Playing in the Tournament

• When you click on the tournament name, you will be registered for the tournament

• When you click ready you will be put in a queue
• You will be paired up with a player who has the closest score to your score
• As soon as there is at least one player other than you in the queue,you will be paired up

• After the game is finished you will again go into "Not Ready" state and you will be considered for another match after you hit ready
• At any time you can see the leaderboard

Hosting Tournament

• The server has a simple UI to host tournament
• You can input tournament name, the number of minutes before the tournament will start and end

• After the tournament is hosted you can see participant list and ongoing matches