♞ Pygame Chess

A local two-player chess game built with Python and Pygame. The game includes custom graphics, a selection of visual themes, sound effects, move history navigation and automatic game saving.

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🎮 Features

• ✔️ Local two-player chess
• ✔️ Custom graphical themes:
  • Blue
  • Classic
  • Green
  • Metal
  • Wood
• ✔️ Move history navigation:
  • Go to first move
  • Step backward
  • Step forward
  • Go to last move
• ✔️ Board rotation based on active player
• ✔️ Sound effects for various game actions
• ✔️ Automatic save and resume of previous game state
• ✔️ Original artwork designed in Adobe Illustrator (MIT licensed)
• ✔️ Full chess rules implemented (castling, en passant, promotion, check, checkmate, stalemate)

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🖼️ Screenshots

Game in action:

Theme selection screen:

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🚀 How to Run

git clone https://github.com/aleksanderZak7/pygame-chess.git
cd pygame-chess
python Chess.py

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⚙️ Requirements

This project requires Python 3.8+ and the pygame library.

Install dependencies

pip install pygame

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🔊 Sound Effects

• Check: Check
• Castling: Castle
• Capture: Capture
• Piece move: Move
• Illegal move: Illegal
• Promotion: Promote
• Game end: Game End
• Game start: Game Start
• Return to menu: Menu Selection (Pixabay)
• Customize screen: Car Light Switch (Uppbeat)
• Theme selection: Finger Snap – Raw (SampleFocus)

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📁 Project Structure

pygame-chess
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├── Chess.py            # Game entry point
├── src/
│   ├── game_control/   # Game state and core logic
│   ├── pieces/         # Chess piece classes (Pawn, Rook, etc.)
│   ├── views/          # UI screens (menu, game screen, etc.)
│   ├── project_assets/
│   │   ├── audio/      # Sound files
│   │   ├── img/        # Custom images
│   │   ├── SS/         # Screenshots
│   │   └── UML/        # UML diagrams

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🧠 UML Diagrams

The project includes the following UML diagrams that illustrate the class structure and gameplay flow:

• Complete UML Class Diagram:

• Complete UML Game Activity Diagram:

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.