README.md

Checkmate - Web chess application based on GNUChess

Description

It is a web application designed and developed during the 2014-2015 Fall Semester as project of [Software Development with Scripting Languages](http://www.ceng.metu.edu.tr/course/ceng498/) course at Middle East Technical University. Pair Programming has been used as software development technique. Important: Our project works best with GNU Chess 6.1.2

Prerequisites

Following packages must be installed: - gnuchess : `sudo apt-get install gnuchess` - django : `sudo apt-get install python-django`

How to run

Let’s proceed step by step: - clone the repository using `git clone [email protected]:esrefozturk/checkmate.git` - change directory using `cd checkmate` - start CheckmateServer using `python CheckmateServer.py 0.0.0.0 20000` - on another terminal change directory using `cd checkmate` - start django web server using `python manage.py runserver`

Where to get help

If you want to try our project and something doesn’t go as expected, drop us a line at [email protected] or [email protected]

Contribution

We both love open source software and would like to see pull requests.

Contributor list

- [Ozge](https://github.com/default-usr) - [Esref](https://github.com/esrefozturk)

Credits

This project is as a fork of [GNUChess](http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/).

Screenshots

  

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