Startup Idea: Chess Club Management Software

Startup idea to develop a chess club management software. Features to include player game history, time control parameters, result submission, and player matching based on elo or glicko rating systems. Also incorporates a pairing algorithm for equitable player matches.

I am the president of my local chess club. We have grown in the past 4 years into a group of 40 or so people, in the past it has been easy to compare who was better than who, but because it has grown so large, it has become tedious to keep track of rating. It would be nice to have some software which members would be able to put in who they played, how long the game was (time control, blitz, rapid, or classical), and the result of the game, to establish a rating using the elo or glicko rating system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

along with a rating system, calculator and database system, it would be nice to have some sort of pairing algorithm, so players can find others of a similar skill/rating to play with, that way lower skill players are not wiped out by really good players, and so people don't just play with the same two or three partners the entire time. Yes, we had an excel spreadsheet but it got way too big and hard to manage, now we don't really do anything.

Submitter: David Josephs, (view contact info)