Chess game developed with React JS

This project was inspired in Chess.com and it even uses some of its pieces assets.

A lot of logical programming was used to implement:

Movements

• Describe all the 5 types of pawn moves (move 2x forward, move 1x forward when it passes the middle board, eat on diagonal, promotion and en passant)
• Describe rook moves
• Describe knight moves
• Describe queen moves
• Describe bishop moves
• Describe king moves (it has to be aware of all the possible threats on board)
• Describe casteling move (king and rook shuffle its positions)

Interactions

• Describe the interaction of 'eating' a piece
• Recognize Checks on king and inviabilize all moves that doesn't save king from check
• Inviabilize moves that will expose its king to a threat
• Recognize a Checkmate
• Recognize a Stalemate (draw)

Other

• Draw board
• Place pieces on its squares
• Show moves history on a painel
• Allow users to move backwards or forward in history moves
• Manage pieces turns
• Highlight piece it is being clicked
• Show all the squares availables to move when a piece is highlighted

To run this project:

git clone https://github.com/brunosaunders/React-chess.git

npm start