An object-oriented chess game played in the terminal. Still a a work in progress, but will be testing soon!
The chess engine is entirely coded from scratch by myself (Jacob). I wanted to code it from scratch literally just for the experience. Turned out to be way more difficult than I'd anticipated, but so much dang fun.
It's very object-oriented using lots of classes and methods to make things work.
It also features a custom useChessGame React hook. YES. React.
This game uses Ink to generate the cli view with React. Take a look around the repo, you'll see what I mean. I love it.
It's now ready to play! Kind of. The Bot AI is pretty bad at chess, choosing moves entirely at random. My next step is to add a bit of intelligence to the artificial player. :)
Though not on NPM quite yet, you can clone this project and get it up and running locally!
To temporarily install the game and uninstall when you're done, run this:
npx mini-chessTo install globally and have access to the cli at any time, run this:
npm install -g mini-chess
chessYou should see a little chess board, pieces, and move the cursor around! You can use ctrl + c to exit the app.
After installing globally, you have access to the mini-chess cli at any time. Simply run chess as shown below to start a new game of chess.
$ chess