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   2   This website was born after Patrick Bernier told me about
   3   a variant he invented, called 'l'Échiqueté', which involves mixed pieces,
   4   half-black and half-white. Back then in 2012, I developed a small website
   5   allowing to play by correspondance with this variant only. I already had
   6   in mind other variants to be added to the website, 'Zen chess' being the
   7   first on the list because it changed so much the thinking process that I
   8   was very curious to play it.
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  11   After a long break, a prototype website allowing to play
  12   live games was tested in the end of 2017, with only a few players.
  13   One year later the first version of the final website was published:
  14   it offered three modes, against a human, a computer engine or analyzing,
  15   with about twenty variants available. The current website is a more modern
  16   rewriting of this initial version: it now has the basic features expected
  17   from a chess playing website :)
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  20   From the main Hall, you can see and talk to online players,
  21   send and accept challenges (live or correspondance), and also watch current
  22   games. If this is your first contact with chess variants, you probably should
  23   start with the 'Variants' page from the top menu: it explains all the rules
  24   and allows to observe sample games or play against basic bots. Finally,
  25   at any moment in a game you can click on the 'Analyze' button to analyze
  26   the position. Try not to do that in live games, your opponent would know ;)
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  29   a(href="https://github.com/yagu0/vchess") The source code
  30   | is freely available on Github: the main ingredients are Express, Node.js,
  31   | Vue and Webpack. The chosen DBMS is SQLite for now because of its simplicity.
  32   | It can be easily changed if needed later. All contributions are welcome:
  33   ul
  34     li Translations: see client/src/translations/ folder
  35     li.
  36       Styling: client/src/stylesheets/ and &lt;style&gt; part of .vue
  37       files in client/src/{components,views}
  38     li.
  39       Back-end and front-end code: a lot can be improved!
  40       Feel free to send pull requests :)
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  43   | A considerable number of people helped for this website,
  44   | testing, giving ideas, motivating me to achieve this project. Thanks in
  45   | relatively random order to Patrick Bernier, Frédéric Fradet, Olive Martin,
  46   | Bevis Martin, Laurent Nouhaud and Christian Poisson for early testing and
  47   | advices from 2012; to Yovann Gatineau and Anatole Vlachos for their
  48   | enthusiasm about the website; to Jérôme Auclair who told me about the
  49   | Dynamo variant; to Nathalie Merlin and lichess players O42, oceansideview,
  50   | okei and opperwezen who tested
  51   a(href="https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/vchessclub--play-chess-variants?page=10") the 2018/12 version
  52   | ; and of course to the websites
  53   a(href="https://schemingmind.com/") schemingmind.com
  54   | and
  55   a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/") chessvariants.com
  56   | which are two great resources about variants.
  57   | If I forget someone in this list, sorry and please tell me!