Angry Chess (Chess for Four)

   

Background

Four player chess is a game I played growing up. I would love to relive the fun of playing "chess doubles" from 18 years ago and so this project was born.

• Two people play on a board as in normal chess.
• There are two teams consisting of two players.
• Each team has a one person playing as black and one person playing as white.
• When a player takes an enemy piece they give it to their teammate who can then place it on the board as a move.
• Pieces cannot be placed on the last two lines or such that they put the other player in check or mate.
• A timer can be introduced limiting the time a player has to make a move. If a move is not made within the time limit, then the other player may take a piece off the board from their opponent.
• I hope to add battle royale elements and abilities / points to increase the possibility space (and fun).

Project structure

• Client is being written in JS
• Server has being written in Golang

Running the project

Server

• Use go version 1.11 or newer (Go mod support).
• Git clone the directory or your own fork of the project.
• go run application.go

Client

• cd to client directory.
• npm i
• npm run serve