not_chess

This is not a multiplayer terminal based chess application

Functionality

• Fully functional chess played through the command line
• Http based multiplayer

What is missing

• Single player/no server
• Closing games
• Seeing a list of current games
• Timers (probably never going to be added)
• any form of security to stop cheating, this was made to play with people that you know!
• a way to message your opponent

How to play

Currently everything is run from python and so requres python to be instlled on your system

Server

Manual

1. Mmake sure chess and flask are installed

   pip install chess
   pip install flask
   

2. Make sure port 5000 is exposed, optionally you can change the port to whatever you want by modifying server.py
3. Run server.py

   python <dir_to_server.py>
   

Docker

optionally you can also host a server by running the docker container this can be built using the docker file provided or can obtained from docker hub (WARNING THE DOCKER HUB IMAGE MIGHT BE OUTDATED) https://hub.docker.com/r/blacklion11/notchess Make sure the port you choose (default 5000) is exposed

Client

1. Run client,py

   python <dir_to_client.py>
   

Client commands

• not in a game
  • create
    • Used to create a game, will be promted to give the game a name. this name will be used by your opponent to join
  • join
    • used to join a game, will be promted to provide a name. If you close your terminal mid game you can reconnect by using the same username and the join command
• In a game
  • board
    • returns the games board
  • pga
    • returns the pga of the current game
  • fen
    • returns the fen representation of the current board
  • moves
    • returns a list of the moves made so far
  • legal_moves
    • returns the legal moves the current player can make
  • MOVE
    • not a command but represents a move you want to make eg (e5,Qxb3,0-0 Etc)