| 1 | h3 History |
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| 3 | p. |
| 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 |
| 8 | by correspondance. |
| 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. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | h3 Contribute |
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| 14 | p |
| 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: |
| 19 | ul |
| 20 | li Translations: see client/src/translations/ folder |
| 21 | li. |
| 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 |
| 25 | |
| 26 | h3 Acknowledgments |
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| 28 | p |
| 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: |
| 32 | | thanks to |
| 33 | ul |
| 34 | li. |
| 35 | Patrick Bernier [*], Frédéric Fradet, Olive Martin, Bevis Martin, |
| 36 | Laurent Nouhaud and Christian Poisson (version 2012 [*] and subsequent); |
| 37 | li |
| 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 |
| 41 | | . |
| 42 | | Finally, the websites |
| 43 | a(href="https://www.chessvariants.com/") chessvariants.com |
| 44 | | and |
| 45 | a(href="https://schemingmind.com/") schemingmind.com |
| 46 | | were very helpful. |