Chess Explorer

This is a chess app built with vanilla JavaScript. It's an exercise to learn web development fundamentals and chess strategy, using HTML, CSS, & JS.

Exercise Constraints

• The game runs in the browser
• No libraries, frameworks, templates, or preprocessors
• Limited dev tools:
  • Node.js
  • ESLint
  • nodemon
  • Stylelint

Goals

• Play locally
  • Support basic movements of each piece
  • Recognize check and mate
  • Recognize a draw
  • Don't allow moves that put or leave the king in check
  • Allow castling
  • Allow en passant
  • Promote pawns to queen
  • Promote pawns to rook, bishop, or knight
• Document the game score in algebraic notation
• Play against an artificial opponent
• Play against another person remotely

Development

Install the dependencies by running:

npm install

Start the node server with:

npm run dev

Identify syntax and style issues with:

npm run lint

Run automated tests with:

npm run test

Test the bot against itself with:

node client/play.js

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