Chessbutbetter is a website where you can play chess against a friend locally or against an AI. I worked on it for my A-Level Computer Science Project alongside a 350 page document and received 69/70 marks.
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Instructions on setting up the project
- Create a new heroku project
- Install and setup the MySQL and PostgreSQL extensions on heroku
- Clone the repo
- Post the code to the heroku project either through Github or the HerokuCLI
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.md for more information.
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