README.md

Chess

A Chess board game implemented as a Java desktop application
A term project in CTU FEE (ČVUT FEL) B0B36PJV course.

Content

• Documentation
• Goal 🎯
  • Features ✨
• Team members
• Git repository
• Further information

Documentation

• Technical Manual ⚙️
  • 👉 See its Development section that includes notes about building and running the project.
• User Manual 📘
• Development plan incl. current state 🗓️

Goal 🎯

Main goal: Create a fully functional and playable implementation of the Chess board game in Java.

Features ✨

• complete and correct implementation of all Chess rules (see Wikipedia's Rules of chess or/and FIDE Laws of Chess taking effect from 1 January 2018)
  • except fifty-move rule, insufficient material rule, threefold repetition rule
• platform independent desktop application (support for macOS, Linux, Windows)
• GUI
• game modes
  • offline, local, two-player game
    • human vs human
    • preparation for human vs computer
      • idea: implement UCI (Universal Chess Interface)
• saving and loading of the game state
  • including the support for PGN chess standard format
• possibility of manually placing the chess pieces before starting the game (game editor)
• chess clock

Team members

• Martin Endler
  [email protected]
  github.com/pokusew

Git repository

The Git repository for this project is hosted at:

1. GitHub pokusew/chess (my GitHub repository)
2. CTU FEE (CVUT FEL) GitLab B202_B0B36PJV/endlemar (as required by the assigment description)

Further information

• Chess Game Notes
• Useful Java/JavaFX development info
• chess project description on the course's website
• see term project general requirements on the course's website