The Beginner's Gambit

An updated version of an old project originally written in pure HTML and CSS, now rewritten using Next.js, MDX and gchessboard.

Original repo

About

A minimal, documentation style website for the rules of Chess.

Website

Built with

• Next.js - application framework
• Tailwindcss / shadcn-ui - styling
• gchessboard - chessboard web component
• MDX - content
• Vercel - deployment

Run Locally

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/your-username/the-beginners-gambit.git

2. Install dependencies

npm install

3. Build and serve the project

npm run build

npm run start

Credits

• mganjoo for creating gchessboard and inspiring this rewrite
• shadcn's open source repo in which I learned a lot about making a documentation site
• Lichess, Chessfox, Chess.com and Wikipedia as reference for the content