Rchess

Welcome to Rchess!

Rchess is a command line chess engine for humans.

Build Status

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rchess'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rchess

Usage

Launch the game:

bin/console

Enter moves using source/target cells:

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7 ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟
6
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  a b c d e f g h
w> e2 e4

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  a b c d e f g h
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Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Tests

Rchess uses Rspec for tests. To run all tests, run rake spec.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/tehsven/rchess.