According to the Guinness World Records, the biggest playable chess set was made in Canada in 2009, with a king that was about 4 feet tall! Try moving that chunk of wood! Fortunately for me, moving these “wooden” chess pieces doesn’t require much by way of heavy lifting!
It isn’t exactly a walk in the park, either though. Making this game two player and movable was actually pretty simple:
public void moveablePiece (View view) {
// Get the clicked squares tag to see what number it is.
int number = Integer.parseInt(view.getTag().toString());
String played;
if (number < 10) {
played = "0" + String.valueOf(number);
} else {
played = String.valueOf(number);
}
if (firstClick) {
firstClick=false;
String myMove = tryMove + played + String.valueOf(theBoard[number]);
Log.i("WJH", myMove);
moveOptions= terminal("availMoves,"+String.valueOf(wTurn));
String[] separated = moveOptions.split(",");
if (Arrays.asList(separated).contains(myMove)) {
String query = terminal("myMove,"+myMove);
Log.i("WJH", query);
drawBoardPieces();
wTurn = !wTurn;
}
tryMove = "";
myMove = "";
mCtv.setText(moveOptions);
} else {
firstClick=true;
tryMove = String.valueOf(theBoard[number]) + played;
Log.i("WJH", tryMove);
String query = terminal("pieceMoves,"+ String.valueOf(theBoard[number]) +
"," + played);
mCtv.setText(query);
}
} // End clicked piece.
But the problem that I have now is that the method I use to move the pieces doesn’t work well with the engine when it comes to castling, promoting, or en passant. So I may need to adjust the JustChessEngine to be more of a FEN style input/output. We’ll have to see.
Linux – keep it simple.