I'm making a chess terminal based game. For each player, do you think I should have a dictionary containing ids that map to each piece I create. So I can use the id's to access each piece and get each of their available moves?
#🔒 Terminal based chess game
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I'm making a chess terminal based game. For each player, do you think I should h...
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minor geyser
why use IDs when you can just use "the piece"
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why use IDs when you can just use "the piece"
I'm creating a class for each piece so I wanted some way to associate the piece to the player
minor geyser
class King(Piece):
... # implement king functionality
class Queen(Piece):
... # implement queen functionality
# ... etc.
board = [
[Rook(), Night(), Bishop(), King(), Queen(), Bishop(), Night(), Rook()],
[Pawn(), Pawn(), Pawn(), Pawn(), Pawn(), Pawn(), Pawn(), Pawn()],
[EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY,]
[EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY,]
[EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY,]
[EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY, EMPTY,]
[Pawn(), Pawn(), Pawn(), Pawn(), Pawn(), Pawn(), Pawn(), Pawn()],
[Rook(), Night(), Bishop(), Queen(), King(), Bishop(), Night(), Rook()],
]
This seems like a good way to do it
and you can pass in Pawn(Black) or whatever
or Pawn("black") or Pawn(2) or Pawn(Color.BLACK) or however you want to do it
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Yeah but when I switch players I want them to have limited access to the pieces. It seems cleaner than checking all pieces to see if it contains a certain color attribute
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```py
class King(Piece):
... # implement king functionality
class Queen(Piece)...
oh so maybe store each piece in each users array? and then when it's their turn I can go through that array and get each of their available moves?
minor geyser
oh so maybe store each piece in each users array? and then when it's their turn ...
you could do that
but it's quite nice to be able to do stuff like ```py
if piece1.color == piece2.color:
print("that location is occupied already")
else:
print(f"congrats, your {piece1} has captured your enemy's {piece2}")
you could always just do both - store a list of pieces for each team and set an attribute to keep track of the color of the piece
When I made my chess game I didn't need to store a list of pieces for each color, but there's no reason that it has to be that way. Do it however you want :)
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When I made my chess game I didn't need to store a list of pieces for each color...
hmm, good notes, thanks! Here's my Github if you ever want to check out the progress or have a couple matches on chess.com lol
minor geyser
If you're curious, here's the chess program I made a couple of years ago. Might be useful or at least interesting to cross reference 
. Never got a chance to upload it to github.
it's meant to work with this GUI frontend
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If you're curious, [here's](<https://paste.pythondiscord.com/7L2Q>) the chess pr...
cool! Going to try to think my way through the design a little more before I look lol
minor geyser
yeah definitely
I share it pretty much just because it has coverage of some strange chess situations like en passant and castling into check etc. which might be tricky to implement correctly
but yeah definitely get your own thing setup
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haha yeah I was thinking about that. Lot of edge cases
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