/chess

Application for the game Chess

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Chess

An application for the game Chess. Chess is a two-player strategy board game that is played on a 8 x 8 checker-patterned gameboard with 64 total squares. A game played by millions of people worldwide. In order for the application to work, you need to have two windows open. One person should click on a color, and the other should click on the other color. The application utilizes web sockets, so the two players can play with each other.

Live Link

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Repo Link

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Technologies

  • Front-end development

    • React
    • DOM manipulation
    • CSS
    • Websockets
    • HTML
    • JavaScript

  • Back-end development

    • Express
    • Morgan
    • Websockets
    • JavaScript

Features

  • Landing Page where two players can choose their color home-page

  • Use websockets so two people can play at the same time two-player

  • Having each of the individual pieces move how they should

  • Be able to implement unique moves (Castling and Promotions)

  • Castling castling_after castling_before

  • Promotion promotion_before promotion_selection promotion_after

  • Able to play a full game of Chess checkmate

Image of a game

gameplay

Technical Challenges

  • Getting all the game pieces to move accordingly
  • Using websockets to connect two UI's
  • Getting all the game logic to correspond correctly

Future Implementations

  • En Pasantes
  • Using databases to store users game stats
  • Able to have more than one match happening at the same time
  • Have a chat box next to the gameboard so the two players can chat
  • Having sound and animations for the game pieces