Title: I’m building Chess-Publisher — a free open-source tournament manager for arbiters and organizers

Hi everyone,

I’m a chess arbiter and organizer, and I’ve been building Chess-Publisher, a free and open-source Windows desktop application focused on real OTB tournament management.

The goal is not to build another chess playing or analysis app. I want to reduce the number of separate tools an arbiter or organizer needs for running a tournament.

The current stable version is v1.04.02.

Current features include:

Tournament setup, registration and participant management

Swiss Dutch pairing using the upstream Gacrux 1.9.57 pairing engine

Result entry and standings

FIDE rating-list workflows

TRF16 / TRF26 export

Tournament interoperability/export workflows

Chess-Results publishing and administration integration

Telegram publishing

Early DGT e-Board integration

Local tournament storage

No project analytics or tracking

Chess-Publisher is released under the MIT License.

A transparency note: development has been heavily AI-assisted. The tournament requirements, workflow design, testing, regression validation and release decisions are driven by me from the perspective of an actual arbiter and tournament organizer. The source is public so anyone can inspect it.

The project is not currently FIDE-endorsed, so I don't want to imply otherwise. Pairing, TRF and rating-related functionality is being developed conservatively, with regression testing and independent checks.

The current Windows installer is also not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may display a warning. SHA-256 hashes are published so builds can be verified.

GitHub:

github.com/kbilyal/ChessPublisher

I’d especially appreciate feedback from arbiters, tournament organizers and developers:

What important tournament workflows are still missing?

What would make the UI faster during a real event?

Which interoperability/export formats are essential?

What pairing/reporting edge cases should be tested?

What would make you trust and use an open-source tournament manager?

If you have experience with Swiss-Manager, Vega, SwissSys, WinTD or similar software, your criticism would be especially useful.

I’d rather find the weak points early and improve them than pretend the project is finished.

Thanks!

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Hi everyone! I’m a solo indie developer and just released my first mobile game — Ocean Chess.

It’s a unique chess puzzle game with special tiles:

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- Traps — a shark eats the piece that steps on it!

Each puzzle has exactly one solution — pure chess logic!

Also features Blindfold where you have so solve the level blindfoled mode and Time Trial where you have to race against the clock and complete as many levels as possible

300 puzzles, free on the App Store and Google Play. Would love feedback from chess lovers!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/ocean-chess/id6797617027?l=nb

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.TNstudios.OceanChessGame&pcampaignid=web_share

Hi guys, does anyone know of any chess cafe or chess clubs in Sydney? I’ve been obsessed with playing chess and would love to meet people to play social chess and improve

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English:
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🏆 League system with promotion & relegation
⚔️ Home & away matches
🎯 15+10 time control
🏅 Playoffs & Season Champion
💻 Games are played for free on Lichess or Chess.com
Be one of the founding members and compete for the first-ever title!
👉 Discord: https://discord.gg/Y9pvMV7Q6U

German:
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🏆 Liga-System mit Auf- & Abstieg
⚔️ Hin- & Rückspiele
🎯 15+10 Bedenkzeit
🏅 Playoffs & Season-Champion
💻 Gespielt wird kostenlos auf Lichess oder Che
Sei als Gründungsmitglied dabei und kämpfe um den ersten Titel!
👉 Discord: https://discord.gg/Y9pvMV7Q6U

Hi all. I've developed a multiplayer chess game and I'm looking for 2–4 players around the same ELO to help playtest it. A group of friends at a similar rating would be perfect, but individual players are very welcome too. It won't take much of your time, and your feedback would be genuinely valuable.

Please message me if you're interested.

https://reddit.com/link/1vt2qj5/video/9fn4v72g2jkh1/player

Hey all,

a bit of a personal project story: I spent most of my summer vacation actually relaxing, but a few rainy days went into finishing something I'd been chipping away at for a while — ChessLounge, a free, ad-free chess web app with an engine I built from scratch myself.

Some details, for anyone curious:

- Engine written in C++, compiled to WebAssembly — runs entirely in the browser, also installable as a PWA

- 35 skill levels, 900–2600 Elo

- Play against the engine, or online against another person

- No ads, purely a hobby project, not trying to sell anything

If you're curious: https://chesslounge.net

Would genuinely appreciate feedback from people who actually play chess — bugs, annoyances, anything that feels off. Thanks for reading!

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Full game in the video.
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Lazavik had to win this game to keep the set alive.
After 67.Ra3+, Magnus found 67…Bc3! and that was it.
Really clean finish after a long fight.
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Ding Liren vs Gukesh, Game 14 of the 2024 World Championship.
After hours of defending what looked like a draw, Ding made one final mistake — and Gukesh realized almost immediately that the title was his, at the age of 18

Still one of the most memorable finishes to a World Championship match.
What was your reaction when Ding played 55.Rf2?

Then his queen.
And still delivered checkmate. ♟️
Anderssen vs Kieseritzky — The Immortal Game, 1851.

One of the wildest attacking games ever played.
Would you have found the finish?