h3 History

p.
  This website was born after Patrick Bernier told me about
  a variant he invented: l'Échiqueté ('Checkered' here), which involves
  pieces that both sides can play.
  Back then in 2012, I developed a small website allowing to play this variant
  by correspondance.
  A few years later I had a prototype to play in live, then other variants
  were added and the website was improved to be more attractive.

h3 Contribute

p
  a(href="https://github.com/yagu0/vchess") The source code
  |  is freely available on Github: the main ingredients are Express, Node.js,
  | Vue and Webpack. The chosen DBMS is SQLite for now at least.
  | All contributions are welcome:
  ul
    li Translations: see client/src/translations/ folder
    li.
      Styling: see <style> parts of .vue files
      in client/src/{components,views}
    li The code in general: see section 'Issues' on Github

h3 Acknowledgments

p
  | Quite many people helped for this website,
  | testing, giving ideas, motivating me to achieve this project.
  | To avoid writing a long list I will only mention two groups:
  | thanks to
  ul
    li.
      Patrick Bernier [*], Frédéric Fradet, Olive Martin, Bevis Martin,
      Laurent Nouhaud and Christian Poisson (version 2012 [*] and subsequent);
    li
      | Nathalie Merlin and lichess players O42, oceansideview, okei and
      | opperwezen who tried 
      a(href="https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/vchessclub--play-chess-variants?page=10") the 2018/12 version
      | .
  | Finally, the websites 
  a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/") chessvariants.com
  |  and 
  a(href="https://schemingmind.com/") schemingmind.com
  |  were very helpful.