DukeChess Demo

This is a demo of my favourite boardgame The Duke.

It is originally based on Java 7 with Tomcat 7 websocket (see folder "/Java-deprecated/"), and jQurey (see folder "/jQuery-deprecated/"). The latest version is based on Node.js, socket.io, and React.

How to play?

Game rules

You can get the full rules from here. For your convenience, a movement reference is provided here.

Online version

This game is available here to play.

Run it locally

• Clone the project.
• Make sure you have npm and node (Node.js) installed.
• Go to the root directory of the project, and run npm install in command point to install all dependencies.
• (Optional) Modify "/index.js" and "/dukechess/index.html" for port and path.
• (Optional) This project is originally designed on Windows. For Linux, please modify paths to the following files:
  • Path to "Chess.xml" in "/dukechess/js-backend/chess/ChessFactory.js";
  • Path to "Player.properties" in "/dukechess/js-backend/flow/Player.js"
• Run node index.js at the root directory.
• Visit http://host:port/path (the default is "http://localhost:80/") on two or more pages and enjoy!

Build it yourself

• Source code of React is under folder "/React/src/".
• You need "/React/0_babel.bat" to preprocess JSX.
• You need "/React/1_terser.bat" to minify JavaScript for Production.
• More details can be found here.

Chess Demo

The code is also adapted for Chess, under the folder "/chess/"). Chess is available here to play.