+h3 History
+
p.
This website was born after Patrick Bernier told me about
- a variant he invented, called 'l'Échiqueté', which involves mixed pieces,
- half-black and half-white. Back then in 2012, I developed a small website
- allowing to play by correspondance with this variant only. I already had
- in mind other variants to be added to the website, 'Zen chess' being the
- first on the list because it changed so much the thinking process that I
- was very curious to play it.
+ a variant he invented: l'Échiqueté ('Checkered' here), which involves
+ pieces that both sides can play.
+ Back 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.
-p.
- After a long break, a prototype website allowing to play
- live games was tested in the end of 2017, with only a few players.
- One year later the first version of the final website was published:
- it offered three modes, against a human, a computer engine or analyzing,
- with about twenty variants available. The current website is a more modern
- rewriting of this initial version: it now has the basic features expected
- from a chess playing website :)
+h3 Notes
+
+p ELO rating is purposely absent from this website.
p.
- From the main Hall, you can see and talk to online players,
- send and accept challenges (live or correspondance), and also watch current
- games. If this is your first contact with chess variants, you probably should
- start with the 'Variants' page from the top menu: it explains all the rules
- and allows to observe sample games or play against basic bots. Finally,
- at any moment in a game you can click on the 'Analyze' button to analyze
- the position. Try not to do that in live games, your opponent would know ;)
+ Games start by default with a random asymmetric position.
+ Random symmetric or even deterministic positions are available too,
+ if you prefer more fairness (but also less fun? :-P ).
+
+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 because of its simplicity.
- | It can be easily changed if needed later. All contributions are welcome:
+ a(href="https://github.com/yagu0/vchess") The source code
+ | is freely available on Github.
+ | It relies on Express, Vue and Webpack.
+ | 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.
- Back-end and front-end code: a lot can be improved!
- Feel free to send pull requests :)
+ li The code in general: see section 'Issues' on Github
-p
- | A considerable number of people helped for this website,
- | testing, giving ideas, motivating me to achieve this project. Thanks in
- | relatively random order to Patrick Bernier, Frédéric Fradet, Olive Martin,
- | Bevis Martin, Laurent Nouhaud and Christian Poisson for early testing and
- | advices from 2012; to Yovann Gatineau and Anatole Vlachos for their
- | enthusiasm about the website; to Jérôme Auclair who told me about the
- | Dynamo variant; to Nathalie Merlin and lichess players O42, oceansideview,
- | okei and opperwezen who tested
- a(href="https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/vchessclub--play-chess-variants?page=10") the 2018/12 version
- | ; and of course to the websites
- a(href="https://schemingmind.com/") schemingmind.com
- | and
- a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/") chessvariants.com
- | which are two great resources about variants.
- | If I forget someone in this list, sorry and please tell me!
+h3 Acknowledgments
+
+p.
+ Quite many people helped for this website,
+ testing, giving ideas, motivating me to achieve this project.
+ Thanks to you all! :-)
+
+h3 Related links
+
+#links
+ a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/") chessvariants.com
+ a(href="https://greenchess.net/") greenchess.net
+ a(href="http://pychess-variants.herokuapp.com/") pychess-variants.com
+ a(href="https://musketeerchess.net/home/index.html") musketeerchess.net
+ a(href="https://schemingmind.com/") schemingmind.com
+ div
+ a(href="https://echekk.fr/spip.php?page=rubrique&id_rubrique=1") echekk.fr
+ span (in French)
+ a(href="https://brainking.com/") brainking.com
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