JustChess
A chess engine written in ruby. It provides a representation of a chess game complete with rules enforcement and serialisation.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'just_chess'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install just_chess
Usage
To start, a new game state can be instantiated with the default state:
game_state = JustChess::GameState.default
Moves can be made by passing in the player number and the from and to rank and file co-ordinates. It will return true if the move is valid, otherwise it will return false.
game_state.move(1, 'e4', 'e5')
The last change with all its details are found in the last_change
attribute
game_state.last_change
If something happens errors may be found in the errors attribute
game_state.errors
The Winner can be found by calling winner on the object.
game_state.winner
Also, the game can be serialized into a hash.
game_state.as_json
Development
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup
to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console
for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mrlhumphreys/just_chess. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.
Code of Conduct
Everyone interacting in the JustChess project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.