Small Chess Program

This is a small implementation of the game of Chess using JAVA's Swing library. My hope is by the end of this project is to get a better understanding of Object-Oriented design and GUI programming. Much of the work here is inspired by the Chess Programming wiki (https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page) and the YouTuber Sabatian Lague (https://www.youtube.com/@SebastianLague).

The Chess Board

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The class "Board.java" located in the "./src/Graphic" directory is in charge of presenting the board visually by utilizing Swing's JFrame, JPanel, and JLayeredPane. It's constructor takes as parameters an array list of pieces, a mouselistiner, and a mousemotionlistener.

The Chess Board is represented as a 2D array containing 64 tiles, where each tile has a different color than its adjacent tile. The records of each tile is stored in a GLOBAL variable which can be accessed through a getter method by all the other classes. Much of the game operates with this 2D array - the combination of each piece type and the location it resides in, we're able to generate the appropriate legal moves and potentially calculate the best move.

private Piece generatePiece(char name, boolean color, int locationX, int locationY)

One of the most important methods within this class is generatePiece(), which creates a new instance of the piece class and allocats space for the appropriate piece to be added to the chessboardi depending on its given parameters. Each piece is given a name, color, and location, all of which are taken into consideration when generating the piece.

Board Representation and Examples

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Fen Notation: "rnb1k1nr/ppp2ppp/3p4/4N3/4P2P/P2P4/P1P3P1/qNBK1B1R b kq h3 0 9".

Compiling the Program

$ javac ./src/Main/Game.java

Executing the Program

$ java ./Game
$ java ./Game "fen___string"