as someone who is SO BAD at chess, black moving instantly still gave me pause
Blunder Free Chess – visualize which squares are attacked
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#12How do I castle?
In the usual way, by moving your king 2 squares over.
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#13How do I castle?
By moving your king two columns at the same time, the computer will move the rook.
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#14How do I castle?
Drag the King to his destination square.
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#15I'm curious as to why you wrote your own chess implementation - seems like this would have been much easier to implement with chessboard.js [1] and chess.js [2]. 1. https://chessboardjs.com/ 2. https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js/blob/master/README.md
They wrote their own because it's more fun to do that, and also because they really wanted me to win. The computer is really really bad
Hey now, I was proud to have won from a chess computer for once!
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#16I was playing chess.com and wished that when you clicked on a piece and it highlighted which positions you could move it to, it would also show in red, which of those positions are take-able.
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#17I am a bad player, but this was pretty easy to win, but i like the idea, Nice work.
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#18Most basic blunders maybe? In a normal game a piece will be attacked and defended by multiple other pieces, with various values, sometimes with some dependencies between them, and I would consider messing this part a relatively trivial blunder as well.
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#19I was playing chess.com and wished that when you clicked on a piece and it highlighted which positions you could move it to, it would also show in red, which of those positions are take-able.
That'll be a little bit unfair
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#20I love the concept. I wouldn't prefer to play chess this way, but I've had a lot of practice, I find it visually a little distracting but I started getting used to it.
I had a situation where my queen was being attacked by a bishop, and the board showed a "safe" space to move my queen, but that queen would have still been attacked by the bishop along that diagonal. Not sure how you solve that, maybe when clicking on a piece, recalculate the board as if the piece is no longer there?
Wonder if simple fork, skewer, or attack counting threats could also be highlighted in some way. I suppose at a certain point it's just too visually busy and the tactics get way deeper than the surface level notions and end up being a distraction, but could be fun exploring an opening or previous game and seeing the "obvious" threats you might not have seen when playing