A Chess Tournament Manager

About

This Python script allows you to create, resume, and progress a chess tournament.

Features

The script includes the following features:

• Management of a player database using a .json file, which includes:

  • Name
  • Surname
  • Chess ID
  • Date of birth

• Creation of a new tournament with tracking of:

  • Start and end date/time of the tournament
  • Name
  • Location
  • Number of rounds
  • Description

• Resuming tournaments at any time

• Full tournament progression with result archiving

• Display of a report containing:

  • A list of saved tournaments
  • A list of players in alphabetical order
  • List of rounds and round matches

Usage

Run the Python script main.py to launch the program.

python main.py

You can exit the script at any time by pressing ctrl + c.

Context - Dev a Python Software

Second Python project, I greatly enjoyed exploring the concept of OOP as well as the MVC model.

Skills

• Object Oriented Programming

  • Class
  • Function

• MVC Software Design Pattern

  • Model
  • View
  • Controller

• Code Linting

  • "Flake 8" 0 violations*
  • Use of Datastring

• Read/Write .json file

Credits

Tuxiboule