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The International Chess Federation

A worldwide organization that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the governing body of international chess competitions.

  • Customer: FIDE
  • Established: 1924
  • Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Domain: Sport
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Targets & goals

FIDE was in search of software providers to create a new web portal. The portal should be modern, user-friendly, and contain information about events, tournaments, and player ratings, and keep a good performance under a load of players, national federations, and chess fans around the world. They chose Kodansoft, thanks to our proven expertise in web application development.
We kicked off the project with a discovery phase, turning our customer’s vision into a full-fledged portal concept with the help of our business analyst and designer:

Providing a unified information space for all chess lovers and national federations, accessible from any device
Convenient player rating management system, advanced rating search, connection of data from different national federations
The ability for users to add and register chess tournaments on the federation portal, publish the results of such tournaments
Creation of a multifunctional administration panel for unique goals and tasks of the portal
Statistics and analytics implementation
Automation of event management processes on the portal with pre-moderation
Connecting Youtube API for live broadcasts of competitions
Transfer of existing sections of the portal to a new and convenient interface
Increasing audience coverage and attracting new partners
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Team members

Business analyst
Project manager
UX/UI designer
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Frontend developers
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3700+ man-hrs

Estimated working scope

190+ days

Estimated development duration

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Development process
Development process
  • 1. Software specifications requirement creation
  • 2. UX/UI design, wireframes development
  • 3. Software architecture design based on load forecasts, microservice structure, technology selection and implementation
  • 4. Main page, news, events, rating, static pages, national federation pages implementation
  • 5. Connecting to several third-party APIs
  • 6. User roles implementation
  • 7. Live Streaming functionality implementation
  • 8. Admin panel implementation, including statistics and analytics
  • 9. Building of smart search
  • 10. Testing
  • 11. Project launch
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Results & project delivery
Results & product delivery

The new portal has become a convenient platform for the federation to interact with professionals, chess fans, national federations, and partners.
In the first month after the release, FIDE noted an increase in site traffic and received many high ratings from representatives of national federations and players. During the first six months of the portal’s operation, the number of users increased by more than 50 percent, and the average audience engagement increased by 2.5.

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Our team of software developers have mastered the power of Angular framework to deliver effective and cutting-edge solutions for a variety of needs.

Laravel PHP Framework is a good starting point for building a webportal, very effective and flexible.

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