unradelic/chess

Coding a chess for fun

IT engineer with over 15 years of self-learning in software dev. I build websites, end-user applications, client-server software and videogames.

I like breaking boundaries and making things in unique ways.

chess's Issues

Pawn piece attacks are currently not working

The answer may lay down following pawnMode argument in hintPath() and subsequently in drawBoxHint()

AI Opponent

Check and checkmate detection

Basically what the title summarizes.

Notation translation: From function to const (easy)

Both of the functions to translate from either standard notation such A1 or F8 to index coordinates or viceversa can actually be defined as constant associative arrays and replace the functions fully.

chess/chess.js

Lines 261 to 270 in 7af0790

	function notationToCoord(notation) {
	let first = notation[0];
	let second = notation[1];
	switch (first) {
	case 'a':
	first = 1;
	break;
	case 'b':
	first = 2;
	break;

chess/chess.js

Lines 292 to 301 in 7af0790

	function coordToNotation(coord) {
	let first = coord[0];
	let second = coord[1];
	switch (first) {
	case 1:
	first = 'a';
	break;
	case 2:
	first = 'b';
	break;