Online Chess game for RHEA

Software Bounty

Status: CLOSED

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The goal of this bounty is to create an online chess game application that elementary students can login and play. Users should have option to play against the CPU or another student. Game logs should be recorded and be available for students to access in the future. Statistics about players should also be recorded. You will be responsible for integrating your software to the current Rhea code. The architecture should be suitable for later integration of more games.

Use Cases:

The software developed must satisfy the following use cases

Server creation
User login via Purdue LDAP and local users
Picking game options

  • Timed or untimed
  • User vs User
  • User vs CPU

Viewing game logs
Game algorithm
Creating and maintain move logs
Visual Chessboard
Saving and managing user game logs
Saving user statistics
Architecture suitable for iintegration of future games

Users:

The expected users of this software is elementary students as well as other Rhea visitors.

Award

$1,500 for successful completion.

Judging:

Award will be given to the student(s) who complete the task before end of December. Successful completion of the project will be judged by a group of Rhea Development Team Members.

  1. Follow the Usability Rules

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