BUSY BUREAU
A chess café that needed software, not a website.
A rating engine, live leaderboard and Swiss tournaments for a chess café in Angeles City, built on Next.js at the edge.
The problem
A café with chess boards in it is just a café. What brings people back weekly is a rating that means something — and a rating only means something if it is kept honestly game after game, and if you can see where you stand. Nothing off the shelf does that for one venue. FIDE is built for federations, and online ratings have no idea who actually sat down at the board.
What we built
A rating engine of its own, deliberately separate from FIDE and from online play, with four time controls scored independently so a blitz player is not judged on classical. Players queue from their phone, choose a rating range, and walk in with a match ID. Behind it sits a live leaderboard, a rank ladder from Pawn to Champion, and Swiss tournaments run off the same data. Next.js on the edge, because a leaderboard you check on the walk over has to load like one.
Services used
Website Design & Management
A site that loads fast, answers the question the visitor arrived with, and gets maintained every month instead of ageing quietly in the background.
Complete Company System & Automation
The manual steps between your tools, removed — quotes, bookings, invoices, reminders and handovers running without anybody retyping anything.
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