Built a game of Chess using Python
This Python code includes three main clasees - Chess, Player1, and Player2. These classes are independent of each other (none of them are parent of another or child of another), but interact with each other by directly calling objects' instances.
Description for Chess class: This class is mainly for creating a board, setting up the board, and selecting each player's color and who starts first. This class does not take in any arguments but records instances like board, player1, player2, each player's color.
Description for Player1 and Player2 class: Takes in player's name, and a Chess object to keep track of current game. Player1 can see possible moves for each type of pieces in Chess. Player1 can also move a piece player wants to move and update the board.
And global functions for calculating the list of possible moves of each piece that can be called in Player1 and Player2
#Things to note: In the game of Chess, board is consisted of ranks(rows) and files(columns). The board goes rank 1 through rank 8 from bottom to top, and file a to file h from left to right. However, two dimensional arrays in coding counts rows from top to bottom, that is, rank 1 on chess board would be 7th row element of the array and rank 8 would be 0th row element.
Could create a global function get_move_map so that it can be called inside class methods instead of hardcoding the same lines of code multiple times.
In a game of chess, pawn, rook, bishop, king, queen cannot jump over other pieces. Only knight can jump over other pieces.