Multiplayer chess that two players can play over LAN. Supports both CLI based and P5JS-Flask GUI based gameplay. Use CLI for simple old-school terminal based interface. Use GUI for a more modern interactive interface.

The sprites and GUI were taken and inspired by chess.com.

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/saiakarsh193/chessmen-online/
cd chessmen-online
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

To start CLI,

python3 cli.py <username>

To start GUI,

python3 app.py

You can start the server using,

# to start server
python3 backend.py start <password>

# to kill server
python3 backend.py kill <password>

# to change oauth for server
python3 backend.py update_pass <password>

The env variables are stored in env.yaml, change them accordingly.

ip_addr: 10.2.128.150
port: 8001
buffer_size: 4096
server_password: 5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592