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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 FEN string at the bottom to
26 "analyze the position. Try not to do that in live games ;)
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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:
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34 li Translations: see client/src/translations/ folder
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36 Styling: client/src/stylesheets/ and <style> part of .vue
37 files in client/src/{components,views}
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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!