README.md

Chess

This project is a two-player game of chess played in the terminal. This game was written in Ruby following the principles of object-oriented design and thorough testing.

Features of this chess game include the following:

• your current game can be saved, and you can load a previously saved game using JSON;
• the game does not allow illegal moves, including those would leave or place the king in check; and
• the board shown in the console rotates for each player.

This project is part of the The Odin Project curriculum.

To play this game

1. Fork this repository on GitHub.
2. Clone your forked reposity onto your local computer.
3. To play the game, cd into the project folder and type ruby play.rb.

To test the code

1. Fork this repository on GitHub.
2. Clone your forked reposity onto your local computer.
3. To run the tests, you need to have rspec installed.
   • First, check to see if rspec is already installed by typing rspec --version into the command line.
   • If the response is similar to the following, then you already have rspec installed and can continue.

     RSpec 3.8
       - rspec-core 3.8.0
       - rspec-expectations 3.8.2
       - rspec-mocks 3.8.0
       - rspec-support 3.8.0

   • If you do not see output similar to the above, then you need to install rspec by typing gem install rspec into the command line.
   • Now, run rspec --version again to ensure that it installed correctly.
4. Use cd to move into the main directory and then enter rspec to run the tests.

Development versions

• Ruby 2.5.3
• RSpec 3.8