Introduction

Fully functional chess game written in Java with Spring/AWT GUI & official rule implementations.

Features (Screenshots)

• Game Panel
• Game Loop
• Chess Board
• File/Rank Labels
• Chess Pieces
• Legal Move Validation
• Legal Move Indicators
• Player vs Player
• Playable as Black
• Turn Based Movement
• Capture Validation
• Capture Highlight
• Castling Mechanic
• En Passant Mechanic
• Promotion Panel
• King in Check Hightlight
• Legal Move Restriction: King Movement
• Legal Move Restriction: Interposable Piece
• Legal Move Restriction: Re-capturable Checking Piece
• Castle Restriction: Out, Through or Into Check
• Checkmate Detection
  

Installation

Clone:

git clone https://github.com/BeraSenol/Chess-Game-Java-2.0.git

Build and run:

javac -cp src/ Main.java
java -cp src/ Main

Usage

Clicking on piece will reveal it's legal moves, click tile to move or re-select another piece to reveal it's legal moves, white always begins.

To play as black change playerColor in ln30:GameWindow.java to PlayerColor.Black.

Default: private static PlayerColor playerColor = PlayerColor.WHITE;

Code Overview

/board

• Board.Java Class that creates tile objects, draws chess board, creates and places pieces.
• Tile.Java Class that define tile objects and hold a piece.
• TileColor.Java Enum holding possible tile color values.

/main

• App.java Main Class that serves GameWindow.java
• GameWindow.java Main file that runs the game, update() and repaint() are the main methods which loop the game.
• Mouse.java Class that detects mouse events.

/piece

• /pieces
• • Bishop.java Class with movement & capture logic.
• • King.java Class with movement, capture & castling logic.
• • Knight.java Class with movement & capture logic.
• • Pawn.java: Class with movement, capture & en passant logic.
• • Queen.java Class with movement & capture logic.
• • Rook.java Class with movement & capture logic.
• /promotion
• • PromotionButtonAction.java Class with JButton ActionListener.
• • PromotionPannel.java Class with JPanel holding JButtons.
• Moveable.java Interface holding move and capture method.
• Piece.java Class holding piece general and common variables/values.
• PieceColor.java Enum holding possible piece colors.
• PieceType.java Enum holding possible piece types.
• PlayerColor.java Enum holding possible player colors.
  
  

Acknowledgments

This project was originally inspired by YouTuber RyiSnow (Thank you very much!):
How to Code Chess in Java

Images found on WikiMedia Commons:
Table of SVG Chess Pieces