Very nice. It looks great and seems really easy and intuitive to use.
A few suggestions:
1. When playing against the AI (on Chrome/Vista) after a move the piece briefly stays where I put it (not centred on the square; and with two pieces visible if I capture the opponent's piece). It only properly completes the move once the AI has moved.
2. When I promote a pawn it asks me to choose from a set of pieces which are black, even though I'm playing white. Might be nice to use piece icons of the same colour as the player.
3. Are there any open source AI players you could use? I'd be tempted to come back if there were some reasonable ones, but the current AI player is no challenge, even for a real amateur player like me.
thanks for the ideas and suggestions jonp. I asked Oscar Toledo (http://nanochess.110mb.com) permission for use of his javascript ai (a.k.a 1k chess) yesterday, guess I'll use a fork of his work
NodeJS and CouchDB. Mustache (http://mustache.github.com) for templating, Jeff Hlywa's chess.js for move validation and JSBuild (http://jsbuild.kodfabrik.com) for the compile of CommonJS modules for browsers, and excanvas for cross-browser canvas
Fantastic design. Only issue at the moment is people leaving after 3 moves or seemingly permanently idle, but no doubt that's due to people trying it out.
Great domain by the way! I think this could have massive numbers of users if you want it to (like other far less appealing chess sites).
I second the design comment. Extremely easy to jump in and start, no log-in bs, nothing to get in your way. The minimalist aesthetic is nice as well. If only I knew how to play chess..
Good Design and neat execution. I'll just add: I don't know how to play Chess, I would prefer that I find a tutorial in the site itself that offers the game rather than looking in Google.
Design Note: It would be better that you add a hover effect. It feels more user-friendly and realistic.
I don't think that's really necessary. It's targeting a niche of people who want to play chess. If you want to learn, there are plenty of other resources out there.
Sleek and simple interface. Where did you find the AI though? I know you aren't supposed to play the AI, but it doesn't seem to be aware of anything happening on the board.
It looks nice. A couple of issues occur when using Opera 11 on Vista. The pieces are not centered on the square, they're about 5px up and left. And when pieces move they leave blue or green backing square artefacts for the next turn.
Seems to not be iPad Mobile Safari compatible. In a singleplayer match, says it's white's turn, but I can't move pieces (presumably I need to be able to drag them), and the site doesn't warn m that I don't have a compatible browser.
That looks great diamondhead.I have web game with mutiplayers.can you tell me please what tools,langauges did you use for MultiplayerChess.com.Thanks in advance
From the domain name, I was under the impression that there would be an option to join a "team" and vote on moves or something like they did for Kasparov vs world
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[ 3508 ms ] story [ 296 ms ] threadA few suggestions:
1. When playing against the AI (on Chrome/Vista) after a move the piece briefly stays where I put it (not centred on the square; and with two pieces visible if I capture the opponent's piece). It only properly completes the move once the AI has moved.
2. When I promote a pawn it asks me to choose from a set of pieces which are black, even though I'm playing white. Might be nice to use piece icons of the same colour as the player.
3. Are there any open source AI players you could use? I'd be tempted to come back if there were some reasonable ones, but the current AI player is no challenge, even for a real amateur player like me.
Otherwise, this is great. I salute you.
What did you use, etc?
Great domain by the way! I think this could have massive numbers of users if you want it to (like other far less appealing chess sites).
[EDIT: also, the AI tries a bit too hard to lose.]
BTW https://gist.github.com/889174
BTW, have you seen http://www.turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/method.html? It's not great as a chess AI, but the "wow" factor is definitely there.
Design Note: It would be better that you add a hover effect. It feels more user-friendly and realistic.
Just before anyone start a rant on decent browser, this is my office PC and I can't install anything else than IE :-(
Could you put some contact info in your about? I'll send some feedback after I use it for some time.