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chess_board_buttons

Feb. 2, 2021, 1:14 p.m. Likes: 0

This is a bare bones multiplayer chess game, using the default MIT CloudDB server to pass game history back and forth between players using the same CloudDB tag to contain a list of board positions.  An 8 by 8 grid of buttons is used as the game board, with Unicode chess pieces as the button text.  A chat feature passes messages through the game history list.

 

This barebones version lacks all rules code, so feel free to use it as a starter kit.  There is enough functionality here to complete games across the Internet, with the players free to honor the rules of chess or to ignore them.

 

Here is one of my free form test games, under tag GameOfThrones:

• White Queen take...

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Credit: 

Thanks to TimAI2 for multi-device testing.

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A more detailed explanation

The intermittent CloudDB errors I experienced were likely from my Multi-MemuPlay testing environment, and don't affect game play that much.

 

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