French team championship custom live views and games archives

The final stage of the French team championship take places from May 18th to 28th in Chartres. The top 12 teams compete for the national championship in matches with eight players each. Top players include GM David Navara, GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek, GM Li Chao, GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko, GM Baadur Jobava, GM Vladimir Malakov, GM Arkadij Naiditsch, GM Maxim Rodshtein, GM Etienne Bacrot, GM Markus Ragger, GM Alexander Areshchenko, GM Viktor Laznicka and GM Laurent Fressinet.

pgn4web is used for live games broadcast, with custom live views developed as part of a portal for chess events setup by the French chess federation; the live views are a further improvement and optimization from last year's version for the same event: the main live view integrates the video streaming commentaries and provides a games list optimized for team events, updated with live results; a mobile live view is optimized for small screens; an accessible live view is designed for visually impaired users; each of the custom live views allows for browsing games archives from past rounds as well. A separate games archive view provides a best games collection.