Chess

Project info

A command line Chess game where two players can play against each other. The purpose of this project is to show that I can take on a project with a lot of different components. This is the capstone project of The Odin Project's Ruby course.

Project description can be found here.

Game info

• Use Standard Algebraic Notation to select your moves.
• Type 'save' at any point to save your game.
• Type 'info' at any point for game information or instructions.

Live demo

Live demo available on Replit (account required)

Table of Contents

• Features
• Technologies utilized
• Learning outcomes
• Project screenshot
• Behind the Scenes
• Installation

Features

• Play multiplayer or singleplayer against the computer.
• Save and resume your games.
• Validation of player and computer moves.
• A stylish brown chess board.

Technologies utilized

• Ruby
• RSpec
• YAML

Learning outcomes

This project helped to reinforce the following skills:

• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• implementation of game saves through serialization
• basic Ruby knowledge

Project screenshot

Behind the scenes

Project notes

• I tried to reduce save file size by having each piece create an adjacency list each time update_children is called, but that slowed the game down significantly

Improvements

This project could be improved with:

• a more sophisticated computer AI
• a turn output like the one in this example
• each move should be recorded to a game history
  • undo move should pull from game history instead of undo any piece's previous move.
  • feature to 'replay game' and go through move by move or let it autoplay the whole game.
• Binary search implemented where appropriate

Resources

• Run rspec to run tests
• The larger display was inspired by this example

Installation

• Clone this repository to your desktop.
• Navigate to the top level of the directory by running cd ruby_chess.
• Run ruby main.rb in your terminal.