4 This website was born after Patrick Bernier told me about
5 a variant he invented: l'Échiqueté ('Checkered' here), which involves
6 pieces that both sides can play.
7 Back then in 2012, I developed a small website allowing to play this variant
9 A few years later I had a prototype to play in live, then other variants
10 were added and the website was improved to be more attractive.
15 a(href="https://github.com/yagu0/vchess") The source code
16 | is freely available on Github: the main ingredients are Express, Node.js,
17 | Vue and Webpack. The chosen DBMS is SQLite for now at least.
18 | All contributions are welcome:
20 li Translations: see client/src/translations/ folder
22 Styling: see <style> parts of .vue files
23 in client/src/{components,views}
24 li The code in general: see section 'Issues' on Github
29 | Quite many people helped for this website,
30 | testing, giving ideas, motivating me to achieve this project.
31 | To avoid writing a long list I will only mention two groups:
35 Patrick Bernier [*], Frédéric Fradet, Olive Martin, Bevis Martin,
36 Laurent Nouhaud and Christian Poisson (version 2012 [*] and subsequent);
38 | Nathalie Merlin and lichess players O42, oceansideview, okei and
39 | opperwezen who tried
40 a(href="https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/vchessclub--play-chess-variants?page=10") the 2018/12 version
42 | Finally, the websites
43 a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/") chessvariants.com
45 a(href="https://schemingmind.com/") schemingmind.com
46 | were very helpful.