About PlayChess

The PlayChess site has been "invented" and created during spring and summer 2000.

The idea was to create a system for web-based email-chess tournaments. All events during a tournament life cycle, like enrollment, pairing of players, making moves, rating calculations, promotion and demotion, should be handled fully automatically.

Such a system did not exist on the web at this time.

Technique

The PlayChess system is a CGI application written in Perl. It runs on UNIX systems (currently Linux) with the Apache webserver. The machine consists of some 10000 lines of Perl code.

The Author

The PlayChess machine has only one author - me, Thomas Stahl from Germany. I develop software since my university days (Physics, not computer science). Currently, I am working in the field of "Electronic Publishing". I am 43 years old, married and have two children (Selina and Leonard).

Contact
General	info@playchess.de
Support	help@playchess.de
Postal address	Thomas Stahl PlayChess Im Niederried 31 63486 Bruchkoebel Germany
Payments	see the payment pages

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