Chess (WIP)

A chess game built with Svelte, TypeScript, and Vite.

Goal

Build an interactive chess experience as an opportunity to learn more about svelte and vitest

Project Roadmap

• Milestone 1: Board Rendering
• Milestone 2: Full Board Initialization
• Milestone 3: Click Source/Destination Movement
• Milestone 4: Drag and Drop Movement
• Milestone 5: FEN Parsing and Text-File Persistence
• Milestone 6: Legal Move Engine
  • Add pawn move generator, including en passant target setting
  • Add knight move generator
  • Add bishop move generator
  • Add queen move generator
  • Add rook move generator, including castling availability
  • Add king move generator, including castling availability
  • Check all generated pseudo legal moves and filter down to legal moves
  • Add halfmove counter updates (reset on pawn move/capture, increment otherwise)
  • Add promotion logic (auto queen promotion)
• Milestone 7: Game Completion Logic
  • Add checkmate detection
  • Add stalemate detection
• Milestone 8: Add ai opponent

Run Locally

Install dependencies:

pnpm install

Start the dev server:

pnpm dev

Useful Commands

pnpm build        # production build
pnpm preview      # preview production build locally
pnpm check        # type + Svelte checks
pnpm lint         # Prettier check
pnpm format       # format code with Prettier