This app takes the name of a chess piece, the colour of the piece, its current position on a board and an intended destination and will confirm if the move is valid or not. It assumes that the piece is the only piece on the board.
The app is hosted on GitHub pages here.
If you want to run the app locally, clone the repo and install the packages:
git clone git@github.com:natasha-mann/chess.git
cd chess
npm i
To run the application:
npm run start
There are several unit tests for the functionality of the chess board, located in src/utils/index.test.tsx along with React tests for the UI components.
These can be run with:
npm run test
👉 A standard chess board is arranged with the White pieces occupying rows 1 & 2, Black pieces occupying rows 8 & 7, like this
👉 Here's a handy guide to how each piece can move in a standard game of chess.
👉 Don't forget that a pawn can move 2 squares when starting from its initial row.
canMove("Rook", "A8", "D8") would return true, whereas
canMove("Queen", "C4", "D6") would return false.