3D Chess Game

This project is about chess game in 3D mode. Chess is a two-player strategy board game on a checkered board with 8x8 grid dimension. There is two player on each game which the first player as White and the second player as Black.

Getting started

To use this repository, you will need:

C++
FreeGLUT

Usage

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/stevenalbert/3d-chess-opengl

Compile C++ source code files
Run the executable

Notes: To run this program please put the executable file and model directory in the same directory. This program has only been tested on Windows and Linux.

How to build and run on Linux

# build
mkdir -p bin && g++ main.cpp Model.cpp Chess/*.cpp `pkgconf --libs glut gl glu` -o bin/3d-chess-opengl

# run
bin/3d-chess-opengl

Game Details

Rules

Each player started with 16 pieces (2 Rooks, 2 Knights, 2 Bishops, 1 Queen, 1 King, and 8 Pawns) on respective side.
First turn is for White piece and next turn is for Black piece.
Other rules can be read in Rules of Chess - Wikipedia

State

Check - When King is under immediate attack of opponent's piece
Checkmate - Check state without valid move left for the player to make the King un-Check-ed
Stalemate - Not in Check state but can't move other than move to the Check itself (not implemented)

Result

Win - The player who gives Checkmate to opponent
Lose - The player who got Checkmate
Draw - There is no winner (not implemented)

Game Control

Key	Action
`N`	Start new game
`W`	Move cursor forward 1 step
`A`	Move cursor left 1 step
`S`	Move cursor backward 1 step
`D`	Move cursor right 1 step
`Space`	Select piece Move piece Cancel move
`O`	Approve `start new game`
`X`	Close game after `checkmate` Cancel `start new game`
`Q`	Promote to `Queen`
`R`	Promote to `Rook`
`B`	Promote to `Bishop`
`K`	Promote to `Knight`