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Chess00: Introduction
This series of articles is about implementing a chess game in Java using Swing. The first article displays the game board and pieces and allows the user to drag the pieces around. The second article...
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Chess01: Dragging game pieces
We will start the series by implementing a little chess game. The idea is to display all the pieces and let the user drag these pieces around using his mouse. In future articles we will continue to...
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Chess02: Introducing game state
In this article we will introduce the concept of a game state variable. Depending on the game state (either ‘white’ or ‘black’) the user will only be able to drag pieces corresponding to the current...
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Chess03: Separating view and logic
In this article we will separate the internal game logic from the user interface logic. Along the way we will have a look at the advantages and disadvantages of this approach. The programming language...
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Chess04: Implementing an alternative user interface
In this article we will create a console based user interface for our chess game by reusing the previously created game logic classes. The article has mainly been created to highlight one of the...
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Chess05: Enforcing game rules
In this article we will take a closer look at enforcing game rules. Because we seperated the view logic from the game logic in one of the earlier articles, implementing rule enforcement is easier as...
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Chess06: Highlighting valid target locations
In this article we will have a look at how we can use the previously implemented MoveValidator to highlight valid target locations when the user starts dragging game pieces. We will also add some...
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Chess07: New game flow handling and AI preparation
In this article we will have a deeper look at the game flow logic and do some preparations for the next article, which will introduce a computer controlled player using artificial intelligence. The...
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Chess08: Implementing an AI (artificial intelligence) player
Chess08: Implementing an AI (artificial intelligence) player Today we implement a computer player using some basic artificial intelligence concepts. We look at how to generate valid moves, how to...
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Chess09: Playing over network
So far we were only able to play the game locally on a single computer. In this tutorial we add some networking features so that we can play against remote players. It might be easier than you think....
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Chess09b: Playing over network (the server part)
After we have covered the client part of networking, let’s have a look at the server. It’s Python, it’s Google App Engine, it’s XML-RPC and it is very straight forward. This is an addition to the ninth...
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