Checkmate - Web chess application based on GNUChess

Description

It is a web application designed and developed during the 2014-2015 Fall Semester as project of Software Development with Scripting Languages course at Middle East Technical University. Pair Programming has been used as software development technique. Important: Our project works best with GNU Chess 6.1.2

Prerequisites

Following packages must be installed:

• gnuchess : sudo apt-get install gnuchess
• django : sudo apt-get install python-django

How to run

Let’s proceed step by step:

• clone the repository using git clone git@github.com:esrefozturk/checkmate.git
• change directory using cd checkmate
• start CheckmateServer using python CheckmateServer.py 0.0.0.0 20000
• on another terminal change directory using cd checkmate
• start django web server using python manage.py runserver

Where to get help

If you want to try our project and something doesn’t go as expected, drop us a line at esref.ozturk@ceng.metu.edu.tr or ozge.lule@ceng.metu.edu.tr

Contribution

We both love open source software and would like to see pull requests.

Contributor list

• Ozge
• Esref

Credits

This project is as a fork of GNUChess.

Screenshots

Built with hugs and bugs in Ankara.