What is phpChess?


Did Ever wanted to run your own chess club? 

Do you want to bring your school chess team to the web?

Do you feel that it would be nice for your club to have a site on the internet that does a bit more?

Do you like chess and you want it for your website

If the answer is "yes!" to any of the above, then phpChess is for you. phpChess is a chess server software package written to be used on most normal internet servers. You can either buy the software from us, and install it on your server, or we can host phpChess for you. It is as easy as can be, and many customers are already severing phpChess to  their community.

What can phpChess do?

phpChess is designed by us to fulfill most aspects of playing chess on the internet. But without all the hustle of having to download some software first. phpChess does for chess, what phpblog did for blogs and phpbb did for bulleting boards. phpChess is a proper, scalable fast chess server, managing communities, and bringing the fun of chess to the internet.

phpChess allows you to install it on any compliant server. You control who plays on your phpChess server. You can modify it until it does it the way you want to do it. Even better, it comes with a administrative console, which allows you to simply adjust the settings to your liking.

Do you want the default language to be different from English?
Do you want members to be automatically accepted, or hand picked?
Do you want to run central tournaments?
Do you want to issue marketing codes to new members to reduce fees?
Do you want to make phpChess look different?
Do you want to offer communities within your phpChess server?
Do you want messaging, chat and newsletters?
DO you want your phpChess server to be fully supported through an only support system?
Of course you want your own phpChess server to be fully FIDE rule compliant
Do you want to replay the matches at any point in time?
Do you want to offer your members FEN, PGN and position set-up?
Do you want to bill your members?

You have got all of this, and much much more with phpChess.

What do I need to have to run phpChess?

Nothing, since we can host the whole phpChess solution for you if you don't want to administer your own website. We even register your website name for you. However if you have a server, or whish to arrange for your own hosting here are some minimum requirements:

mySQL database (4.12 or higher)
php language installed (4.2 or higher)
4MB disk space (database not included)

Why is phpChess so cheap?

We at phpChess Limited believe that chess is the greatest game in the universe. It is great in helping children to further their problem solving skills. It helps youngsters to get together and channel their energies into the brain, rather then fight. It keeps adults mind active, and brings joy to the generations. It is not simply based on the luck of the dice. Instead it is skill based. Old can play young, new can play experienced, and you can play over long distances (both space and time). We believe that everyone should get into chess, and phpChess is the way to make that happen.
We have been asked if phpChess doesn't separate the chess communities, but because you can export players from one phpChess server, and have them as guests on another chess server, we believe this is not an issue. In fact phpChess galvanizes communities instead of people drifting around the internet by themselves. 

How do I get started with phpChess?

Nothing could be simpler (probably). you may wish to
try it out -> here
Download and try out the free version for yourself -> here
ask us some questions -> here
Buy it right away -> here
Thank you for considering phpChess.