frescoraja/ruby_chess

two player, interactive console game written in Ruby

Chess

Two-player graphical command-line chess with move highlighting, written in Ruby.

Installation

To install, please have ruby 2.3+ installed, clone this repo and run bundle install to install dependencies. The game executable is game.rb

git clone https://github.com/frescoraja/ruby_chess && cd ruby_chess

bundle install

ruby game.rb

# To enable move highlighting, append hl flag:

ruby game.rb --hl

Features

• Valid-move highlighting: move your cursor to a piece to see all valid moves for that piece (ruby game.rb --hl to enable move highlighting)
• Pawn en-passant attack
• Pawn conversion

Demo