chessProject

Last updated: 16 March 2019

• Highlight Space when selected
• Displays current turn colour
• inCheck() for pawn, knight, rook
• Pawns no longer capture same coloured pieces
• Pieces rightfully operates in turns (white then black then white, etc. )

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Objectives

• To design, implement, and test a small class hierarchy
• To use two dimensional arrays and enum types and implement a GUI-base game working with a group on a project

Description

A program that implements a simple GUI program that allows two players to play a chess. The challenge was to design and organize pieces into a class hierarchy that utilizes polymorphism.

FEATURES

HIGHLIGHTING

• IChessModel.java ( UNCHANGED )
• IchessPiece.java ( UNCHANGED )
• Player.java ( UNCHANGED )

ChessModel.java

Class responsible for storing the chessboard and implementing the game logic

• isComplete()
• isValidMove(Move move) checks if move is valid
• isComplete(Move move)
• move()
• inCheck(Player p)
• Player currentPlayer()
• IChessPiece pieceAt()

ChessPanel.java extends JPanel

Class is responsible for presenting the GUI and responding to user actions and updating the view. Allows only valid moves and ensures white moves before black.

• displayBoard() updates board

ChessPiece.java implements IChessPiece

• type() is abstract.
• isValidMove() verify that start/end locations are different. Performs checks.

ChessGUI.java

Contains main method that creates and displays the chess game GUI. Use chess piece icons.

GUIcodes.java

isValidMove() Check for all pieces

• Pawn.java extends ChessPiece
• Rook.java extends ChessPiece
• King.java extends ChessPiece
• Queen.java extends ChessPiece
• Bishop.java extends ChessPiece

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