tommybananas / swift-chess

A simple chess game built for OSX using Swift 2.0

A simple chess game built from scratch for OSX, entirely using Swift 2.0.

Running the project

All that should be needed to build this is an up-to-date version of Xcode, on any suitable OSX environment. As soon as a suitable release build is pushed, this will contain a link to an associated GitHub release.

Features

• OSX-native Cocoa GUI
• Human vs Human gameplay
• "Special" chess move support:
  • Castling
  • Queening
  • En Passant's rule
• Multiple icon sets, thanks to PyChess (licensing info in LICENSING.md)

Planned features

• Full code documentation (in-progress, see most recent commit)
• LAN network multiplayer in-progress
• King checking detection
• Computer opponents with configurable difficulty