chessnut is a web interface for playing against chess engines. It is interacting with
superb binbo beneath the surface.
chessnut was previously written in Angular, and used lichess-org/chessground-examples as a board.
But after a little investigation, I decided to switch over other libraries.
chessnut doesn't use Angular anymore but lit and chess-board web component.
This was a learning tool. Mainly, to practice erlang programming language.
It turns out that the idea has more fun in it than predicted.
1. A better web interface. Partly done
2. There are many things to implement out of binbo, the possibilities are many.
Tournaments between engines, a game analyzer.
3. Custom pgn and fen as input.
3.
chessground doesn't know anything about en passant rule and pawn promotion.I haven't add anything to handle them. Therefore, those cases, when occur, render the game unplayable.
4. Changing board styling.
5. Get more erlang into play, like saving games in a memory somewhere.
cd priv/ui
npm install
npm run devexport CHESS_ENGINE="/path/to/chess/engine" # set the path of chess engine
rebar3 get-deps
rebar3 shell http://localhost:5173/
Make moves. And enjoy binbo.
