chessLogger

Alpha Chess Analysis using Chess.js and ChessBoard.js

Background

Back in 2006, I had a TREO. The phone was cool at the time. It had a chess program that was great. The engine was okay, but it really shone when used to record a game between 2 people. When I upgraded to a legitimate smart phone, I couldn't find anything as useful even though I've now downloaded about 30 apps in search of this holy grail.

Features

Standard graphical board with click and drag movement (thanks oakmac!)
Disallow invalid moves (thanks jhlywa!)
Click on a move in the move list to reposition the board to that move
Create analysis lines by making a different move when the board is not at the end of the move list
Persist to a mongoDB database

To Be Implemented

Multiple Users with access to all games marked public or participated in
Real-time playing over a network
Analysis notation and commenting
Set up a position to play from
Import PGN files
Enable Save to Local DB and upload when connected

Notes

For persisting games to the database, currently a JSON-capable REST api is expected.
//(ServerUrl)/(DBName)/(CollectionName)/(ID) for a HTTP GET command. I use the basic MongoRest Node.js project here, borrowed from tdegrunt over here

Installation

Clone the repo
cd to the repo directory
Run npm install and bower install
Edit chessLogger.js to add your default mongodb url, db name, and collection name in the default settings in controller (if you want game persistence)
Documentation is in /docs (and incomplete), but you can generate it using jsdoc -c jsdoc.json or grunt if you have jsdoc installed.
Enjoy