Chess

Chess game built in C# and ASCII art.

Developing

Built With

Prerequisites

Download and install the .NET Core SDK.

Installing the Cake

Cake (C# Make) is a cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages.

$ dotnet tool install -g Cake.Tool --version 0.30.0

Installing the DejaVu Sans Mono font in Windows 10

This font allows you to display the chess pieces in the Windows console, to install we will follow the steps below:

Download the dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.37.zip from the site dejavu-fonts.org.
Extract the downloaded .zip file and install the DejaVuSansMono.ttf font that is in the ttf folder.
Open regedit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont.
Add a new String Value 000 with the value DejaVu Sans Mono.

Setting up Dev

# Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/jroliveira/chess.git

# Go into the repository
$ cd chess

Building

$ dotnet cake ./cakebuild/build.cake

# Restore dependencies
$ dotnet restore

# Build project
$ dotnet build

# Run all tests
$ dotnet test -v q

Running

Open a Command Prompt and execute the code below.

# Run silo project
$ dotnet run --project src/Chess.SiloHost/

After the message Press Enter to terminate... appears, open a new Command Prompt and execute the code below.

# Run client project
$ dotnet run --project src/Chess.Client/

Licensing

The code is available under the MIT license.

gianaugusto/chess