♟️ Chess ♟️

Console chess game written in Ruby. Made for the Ruby Final Project from The Odin Project.

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My Experience

This certainly is the hardest project I ever made at the day I writing this. I used all my skills I learned so far in this project, and unfortunely I coudn't figured out how to implement the special moves, due to how the code get messy in some parts (especially the way that coordinate works). I had to refactor my code many times, so my mistake here probably has bad code planning. But happily I could make it functional, with almost all the chess mechanics. I writed some tests for the piece movements, but I feel like I need to study more about Tests.

Tutorial

Note: This won't teach you how to play chess, but how to run and interact with the game. If you dont know how to play chess, take a look at this video.

Run the game

Requirements

• Ruby version: 3.1.2
• gem 'colorize'
• gem 'rspec'

After downloading the repo:

1. Open your terminal in the project folder
2. Run 'bundle' to install the required gems
3. Run 'ruby lib/main.rb' to launch the game

How to Play

When prompted to perfom an action, you have three options:

• Move: To move a piece in game, you must type 'mv (piece position) (target tile)', switching the parenthesis arguments to notation coordinates.
  Example: 'mv a2 a4' will try to move the piece at a2 to the a4 tile. Be sure that the movement is valid!
• Saving the game: Type 'save'
• Exiting the game: Type 'exit' (Note that this wont save the game!)