Startup Idea: Chess Club Rating and Pairing Management Software

Startup idea to develop a software solution for chess clubs to manage player ratings and pairings. It should include the ability to track player's game records, calculate their rating using elo or glicko rating system and suggest games with players of similar skill level.

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.

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).