Play on Lichess over the board, for cheap (well, with your mobile phone and an internet connection).

Try it on telechecs.com.

I find playing online an exciting idea but a very frustrating experience. Being glued to a screen lowers the enjoyment of playing quite a bit, and unfortunately I couldn't manage to focus my attention when I replicated the game online on a chessboard. Thus the idea to have the online part reduced to a scoresheet as to not distract me from the board. After having the interface quite OK plugged to a chess engine, it's now redirected to the great Lichess platform.

The state of the application is at the level of a proof of concept, but already functional enough to make it enjoyable to play with.

Made a lil video to demonstrate how it's supposed to work.

The program is just a Javascript bundle out of Typescript source code . It does mean that you don't need much to get it running anywhere.

If you want to experiment with it (or even fix things 😉), a simple npm install && npm run dev will do to have it running locally and watching ([edit] the dev server now points to a local instance of lichess, see lila-docker to get up and running smoothly).

rather a note for myself though

npm run build \
    && git add www \
    && git commit www/ -m 'Build' \
    && git push

This "work" is written by Pierre Marchand and licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.