Chess

Here's my first attempt at creating an actual program that isn't bubble-sort or anything school related. If you couldn't guess, the project at hand is chess. This project is being made in Java 11 using Swing.

Description

This project is 50% fun, 25% trying to prove that I'm not awful at programming, and 25% "learning" (which is really pulling my hair out from getting NullPointerException over and over). I've decided to upload to GitHub to practice version control and share my programs with others (for whatever reason). My end goal is to have a chess program with a variety of settings, an easy-to-follow interface with a clean display to match, and generally just a program I can be proud of.

Installation

1. Clone the repository or download the repository as a .zip file.
   • Extract the files to desired location if downloaded as a .zip file.
2. Run panels.Main in your IDE or some other method I'm not aware of.
3. Enjoy!

Progress

Below I have listed the various features/milestones/objectives/other synonym for goal that I have for this project. This includes both completed and future tasks.

Category	Incomplete Items	Complete Items	Notes
Piece Movement Functionality		- All General Piece Movement - Check - En Passant - Castling - Pawn Promotion
Start Menu		- Start Button - Timer Settings
General Game Components	- Player Options     > Draw     > Resign     > Takeback	- Board - Player Info Box     > Timer     > Piece Difference Display - Move History Table	Player Options are currently planned on being a part of the Player Info Box.
Resizing		- Start Menu - General Game Components
Game Over Condition Logic	- 3-Fold Repetition - 50-Move Rule	- Checkmate - Stalemate
Game Over State	- Back to Start Menu	- Rematch
Options	- Toggle Move Hints - Auto-Promote Pawn to Queen		Dialog hasn't been implemented yet, let alone functionality.
Miscellaneous	- Chess AI - Network Capabilities - Make Application Executable	- Custom Made Pieces

Improvements

The program (unfortunately) contains many inefficient behaviors. The following table lists a description of all issues I am aware of.

Location	Inefficiencies	Correction
entities.Player	1. updatePieceCount with every update	1. Update when a piece is removed or added to board.
panels.TimeSettings	1. Performs the resize method in actionPerformed.	1. Resize in panel.StartMenu's componentAdapter.
panels.PieceDiffDisplay	1. updateDiffCount in actionPerformed.	1. Update the piece difference when the old count is different from the new count.
panels.Board	1. actionPerformed contains a "check" to see if the board has been initially centered 2. actionPerformed is in charge of formatting time.	1. Center on initialization 2. Format time when a player's second count crosses 60.
panels.MoveHistoryDisplay	1. Performs the resize method in actionPerformed.	1. Resize in panel.Game's componentAdapter.
src	1. Include pre-conditions for every method with parameters 2. Wrap long lines of text 3. Rename variables to be concise 4. General formatting (according to standard coding conventions)	1. Just do it :(

Resources

• Piece design by Yi Jun Yang