Fianchetto Chess
CAD and Coding · 2025–2026 · Built the website and designed the stencils; founded and ran the club
Built with Flask, JavaScript, CSS, 3D printing
Fianchetto Chess Club is a chess group I started in Fort Worth in July 2024. It meets at Avoca Coffee Foch. I teach groups and private lessons. This page showcases two things I made to benefit it. The first is the club's website, and the second is the 3D-printed stencil that created a way to put a bishop on a coffee order via toppings sprinkled on it. This allowed us to donate 170 more boards to Cooks Childrens.
The website
I built fianchettochessclub.com so the club had one place to show its schedule, offer lessons, and explain the charity drive. It has five pages: Home, Schedule, Lessons, Charity, and Contact. The backend is a small Flask app, and the front end is hand-written HTML templates, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript, with no framework or library on top.
- Schedule: a month calendar I wrote from scratch. It works out each month's grid by hand, and clicking a day opens that day's events. It can be used with the keyboard, and event text is escaped before it is shown.
- Home: an auto-advancing photo carousel with indicator dots that pauses when the mouse is over it.
- Layout: a mobile menu and scroll-reveal animations, so it works on a phone as well as a laptop.
The fundraiser stencils
For a fundraiser with Avoca Coffee, I designed and 3D printed stencils in the shape of a bishop. When someone ordered a drink with cinnamon or cocoa on top, the powder was shaken through the stencil so the drink came out with a bishop on it. Twenty percent of each of those drinks was donated to the club.
I used that money to buy chessboards, and the boards were donated to children at Cook Children's Hospital. In total the fundraiser allowed use to buy 170 more chess boards going way past the goal of 200
