Design a Chess game (using OOPS and Java Design Pattern)

Question

Can someone help me build a chess game from the scratch using Java OOPS and Design patterns concepts.

A rough model is enough. Are there any links/blogs for this?

Answer 1

First of all, this is a very broad question.

Second, Object Oriented approaches are somewhat slow, which will decrease the engines play strength.

That said, here is roughly what you need: - a piece class, or an enum, or something similar

• a chessboard class, where you can place and move pieces

• a move generator, this is a function that lists all legal moves of a chessboard

• an evaluation function that "rates" chesspositions, wheter black or white has an advantage

• a minimax function, (see google "minimax algorithm"), that returns the best move in a position

• some kind of gui for the whole thing

For more info, see the chessprogramming wiki.

Answer 2

I would have a class for the games map, a class for a figure (and childclasses for tower, king aso.). Also probably a class for the player.