Shatranj

The classic game of chess with a modern prize for winning. Play with $ASHF, winner takes it all.

Official submission by Team Web23 to BUIDL IT Hackathon.

Background

During the lockdown in light of the pandemic, we all witnessed a sharp increase in the popularity of chess. As most sporting action shut down because of the lockdown, chess found new life online with several tournaments taking place. In an interview to PTI, the 51-year-old maestro Viswanathan Anand touched upon a variety of subjects, including the immense popularity of chess-based Netflix drama 'The Queen's Gambit, his new role of a mentor to youngsters and an upcoming biopic on his remarkable career and life.

'The Queen's Gambit', a drama on the life of an orphaned chess prodigy who rises to the top while struggling with drugs and alcohol, has made chess appealing to a younger generation with online searches for the sport and its practitioners hitting a new high.

Reputed chess website chess.com declared that it's subscriber base shot up significantly after the series's release. With Samay Raina, the organizer of Comedians On Board and an avid Chess Enthusiast onboard BUIDL IT, we decided to try our hands over the ancient game of Shatranj with new Asharfi, cryptocurrency, which just like Chess boomed in Indian households this year.

About Shatranj

we know that Chess games are widely popular today. Shatranj increases the incentive and the stake to play this classic ancient game with Web3 tokens we call Asharfi (ancient coins in India) $ASHF. Both players of the game that connect unsing our special matchmaking algorithm agree on a bid amount and the winner of the game takes all the $ASHF (game token) in the prize pool.

Technology Stack

Frontend

React.js
Next.js
Chess.js
Chakra UI
TypeScript

Backend

Python
Fast API
PostgreSQL
Socket.IO
AWS EC2

Web3

Ethers
Truffle
Solidity
Metamask
Web3 Token
Ganache-CLI (For Testing Purposes)
Polygon Network
ASHF - ERC20 Token Deployed on Polygon Network
Open Zeppelin for ERC20 Contract

Implementation and Deployment

The Frontend of the application is deployed over Vercel and it harnesses the capabilities of the aforementioned Technology Stack.

Prize Tracks

Hackathon Overalls
NFT and Gaming Track
Web3 Integration with Web2
DeFi Track
Best Tooling
Crypto Chess Dapp - Samay Raina
StackOS
Superfluid

Team

Vivek Nigam

Himanshu Garg

Ankur

Aaishika S Bhattacharya

Ending Notes

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