Background
There are three reasons for i wrote the chess program.
- To write a chess program is an interesting and challenging task
- I want to get practice and experience in C#
- It's good to have something to show potential employers
Demonstrate
Because among other things I wrote it to show my programming knowledge so it fits to list what I used when developing it.
- Object Oriented Programming
- UML
- Microsoft .Net
- C#
- XML
- Creating GUI
Functions
But for those of you who just want to have a chess program , it is more interesting what features are available in the program.
Different game possibilities
- Between 2 persons on the same computer
- Game against the computer
- Game over Internet
- Game via e-mail
Rules
- Support for en passant move
- Support for castling move
- Management of draw because of 50 moves without capturing or moving of a pawn
- Management of draw because of three repeated games condition
other possibilities
- You can save and load / open chess games
- Ability to select skin to determine the appearance (including piece images)
- Ability to undo moves
- Pissibility to get suggestions from the game engine
- Opportunity to see what moves are possible for a given piece
