The ancient, famous game of chess - written using the young, little-known UI framework Compose for Desktop.
Note
This is still a work in progress
I wrote this app mostly for learning purposes. I was looking at cool Kotlin frameworks and randomly stumbled upon this one and being an avid chess-fan (but far from good at it 😅) I decided to try and make the game. Back when I started (and maybe also now) the documentation was very scarce and there was a lot of trial and error involved in getting the app to the point where it is now.
- Rendered board
- Drag and drop of pieces (with snap-to-center functionality)
- General game logic (internal board state etc.)
- Valid moves for pieces (including promotion, check, casteling)
- Previous state of the game (to see all previous positions)
- Sound
- Time (Classic, Rapid and Bullet)
- Final polishing
- Backend for online playing
- Different themes
- A fully fledged game
- Chess engine
- Import/export positions