Creating a Chess Game Web Development

Websites like this one help connect chess fanatics from all around the world. We can meet new people, play wildly intense matches, and have a fun time all throughout. Imagine what it would be like if we didn't have platforms like this one. Boring!

Thanks to modern web design and development, we can experience more than ever before online. Many computer programmers have been known to love playing Chess, such as Alan Turing. For those who don't know, Alan Turing is a computer scientist who developed the first Chess game software application. There has been very interesting discussions on Quora about the correlation between Chess and computer programming skill.

So, how does one develop a Chess web application? Firstly, you need to consider all of the features you want your application to implement. For simplicity's sake, let's consider a barebones chess game against a random person. Some of the things you will need are: a graphical user interface (GUI) for users to see and interact with a chess board, an Internet server to connect users and enable multiplayer gaming, and back-end game logic to process game moves and update frames. Those are the basic main requirements, however you might want a database to save information as well.

The programming languages you will use are PHP, JavaScript, and HTML5/CSS3. You may be interested in using frameworks such as ReactJS and NodeJS for a dynamic interface and server. Personally, I like beginning all my new web projects by setting up the web pages with limited design and all the buttons needed. You can save some time by also getting some template code for a basic server that can handle connections. Then, you'll need some logic for connecting two random users together.

Here is a snippet of pseudocode how you might approach this situation.

// user connects to server

server.on('connect', (socket) => {

server.getConnections(function(error,count){
    for each connection {

         if (!connection.inGame && connection.searchingForGame) {

                 startGame(socket.user, connection);

          }

     }

});

});

You'll then start writing code for each other part of the application. Obviously, this is a large and complex project. So make sure you have a lot of free time available!

About The Author

Kevin Dhimitri is a SEO specialist and website designer in NYC, learn more here. Kevin studied Computer Science at New York University (NYU) and has created various apps in his free time ranging from mobile games, web applications, websites, and so forth. Kevin has been playing Chess for about 2 years now.