We have to design simple chess game. Chess is actually a very popular game. You can read more about it online on wikipedia or on some other places.
If you have already played it already then you might already know this. But to ensure that we all are on the same page, I am defining some here:
- Board: Board is the one entity represents an actual board on which which you play this game.
- Cell: A board consists of a grid of cells.
- Player: Someone who is actually playing right.
- Piece: There are various types of pieces as explained below.
- King: Key entity in chess. If your king is killed then you lose. Its also called checkmate.
- Queen: It can move any number of steps in a single move and in any direction.
- Rook: It only moves in horizontal and vertical direction but can move any number of steps in single move.
- Bishop: It only moves in diagonal direction but can move any number of steps in single move.
- Knight: It makes L shaped moves. Check online for more details about it.
- Pawn: It can move 1 step forward vertically. If it is its first turn, then it can also choose to make 2 steps in single move.
Note: All pieces except Knight cannot jump any other piece. Knight can jump over other pieces.
- Code should be functionally correct.
- Code should be modular and readable. Clean and professional level code.
- Code should be extesible and scalable. Means it should be able to accomodate new requirements with minimal changes.
- Code should have good OOPs design.
- Pawns should be converted into Queen if they reach the last row.
- Stalemate should be handled.
- Chequemate should result in winning the game.
- Castling can be handled as extension to this problem.