Chess Game Project

Challenge

The aim of this hands-on practical project is to reinforce knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Java by implementing a chess game.

Created during Udemy Java and OOP course.

Proposal

To create a complete functional chess game, that can be played at a colorful terminal (such as git bash), using coordinates.

Diagram

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/samanthamaiaduarte/chess_java.git

2. Open your terminal in the chess_java directory:

3. Create bin directory:

mkdir bin

3. Compile the application:

javac -d ./bin -sourcepath ./src ./src/application/Program.java

4. Run the application:

java -cp ./bin/ application/Program

For a better experience, use a colorful terminal, such as Git bash.

Usage/Examples

For you to play a chess match, after execute the application, just inform the position of the piece you want to move and the final position of the selected piece, using coordinates column + line.

Ex.:
Source: c2
Target: c4

Possible moves will be showed at the board.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue or submit a pull request to the repository.

When contributing to this project, please follow the existing code style, commit conventions, and submit your changes in a separate branch.