ChessPlay

Production-ready real-time chess platform showcase.

ChessPlay is a full-stack chess product focused on real-time multiplayer gameplay, AI-powered practice, authenticated dashboards, leaderboards, social features, and production deployment.

Live Demo

• Live app: https://getchessplay.vercel.app/
• Developer portfolio: https://sunilcraft.vercel.app

Product Overview

ChessPlay is designed as a modern chess platform where users can play online, challenge AI, track progress, manage profiles, and experience a polished game dashboard.

This public repository is used as a professional showcase for the product. Sensitive production code, secrets, infrastructure configuration, and private backend implementation details are not exposed here.

Key Features

Gameplay

• Real-time multiplayer chess
• Play vs AI using Stockfish
• Legal move validation
• Game timers
• Game history
• Leaderboard
• Resign and game-end flows

User Platform

• Authentication
• User dashboard
• Profile management
• Friends system
• Notifications
• Referral rewards
• Premium membership planning

Product & Engineering

• Responsive web UI
• Socket-based real-time communication
• Production deployment workflow
• Scalable architecture planning
• PostgreSQL/Prisma migration planning
• Mobile app roadmap

Tech Stack

Frontend

• React.js
• Vite
• Tailwind CSS
• JavaScript / TypeScript migration path

Backend

• Node.js
• Express.js
• Socket.IO

Database

• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL migration roadmap
• Prisma planning

Deployment

• Vercel
• Render / Railway planning
• GitHub release workflow

Screenshots

Architecture Overview

React Frontend
   ↓
REST API + Socket.IO
   ↓
Node.js + Express Backend
   ↓
Database Layer
   ↓
MongoDB / PostgreSQL Migration Path

Repository Purpose

This repository is intentionally public and focuses on:

• product presentation
• screenshots
• feature documentation
• roadmap documentation
• recruiter/client showcase
• launch and marketing visibility

Private production implementation details remain protected in the private production repository.

Roadmap

• Tournament mode
• Enhanced AI difficulty levels
• Puzzle/training mode
• Mobile app release
• Advanced player analytics
• Premium subscriptions
• Better social gameplay features
• PostgreSQL + Prisma production migration

Developer

Sunil Kumar K V

• Portfolio: https://sunilcraft.vercel.app
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilkumarkv44/
• GitHub: https://github.com/SunilKumarKV

License

MIT