Usage of the API for a commercial project

Hello,

I am currently trying to build a project to provide data-analysis on player's games. The idea behind the project is to offer some analysis based on a large amount of games, instead of studying games one by one. Since the tool is based on the analysis of multiple games at once, it would be interesting to be able to only enter your chess.com username, provide a time period and run the analysis based on the games provided by the API.

However, since I would like to make profit from this project, I am wondering about the legal terms of the usage of the API in the context described previously.

As stated in the readme:

"Under no circumstances may data obtained from the Chess.com website or API be used to create or augment a competing service. If you are concerned that your service may be deemed "competing," ask us. "

Would such a service be considered as a competing service of chess.com ?

Thanks a lot

The answer is in your quote. "ask us". That would be Chess.com.

So he is asking. 

I'm not sure what the answer to your question is. However, I would definitely advise you to contact Chess.com directly about this. An internet forum isn't necessarily the best place to discuss legal and business dealings, for many reasons.

(Do I have to put some disclaimer or another here? *Ahem ahem* These statements do not constitute business or legal advice. Talk to your lawyer. Etc., etc.)

Ask via a business contact email address or if you can't find one the support team can probably help you out by telling you or sending you to someone who can..