Velocity chess

Velocity Chess approached us with a goal of creating a platform that would allow playing blitz chess games between players from all around the world. Our solution had to support large traffic and be accessible from countries with poor internet bandwidth. It had to be compatible with mobile devices.

The application’s goal was to be a chess hub with social networking capability, tutoring tools and gamification mechanics.

We chose node5 as the technology to implement chess games. Along with MongoDB and Redis NoSql databases, as well as Knockout and JavaScript on the frontend, it allowed us to create a solution that can support hundreds of games at once.

We avoided using technologies which would prevent the platform from running on mobile devices and require users to download applets. We decided to go with a much nicer JavaScript solution.

For chess logic, we used Stockfish script and we adapted it to our needs. We created a set of chess bots with different skill levels, with which players can train before challenging live users.