https://github.com/aveek-saha/firechess

Play online chess with your friends, powered by Firebase 🔥♟
https://github.com/aveek-saha/firechess

chess chess-website firebase multiplayer online-chess svelte

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Play online chess with your friends, powered by Firebase 🔥♟

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/aveek-saha/firechess
• Owner: Aveek-Saha
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-04-22T15:18:25.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-05-29T16:39:04.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-13T18:04:02.611Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: chess, chess-website, firebase, multiplayer, online-chess, svelte
• Language: Svelte
• Homepage: http://firechess0.web.app
• Size: 124 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Fire Chess

 

Play chess online with a friend, powered by Firebase. 

### Play [here](http://firechess0.web.app)

 

# How to play

 

1. Go to http://firechess0.web.app/

1. Log in with one of the auth providers.

1. Start playing:

    * Create a room and then share the room Id with a friend.

    * Get a room Id from a friend and join a room.

 

Yes, it's really that simple! 

 

For now each player can only create up to 5 rooms, though this is a number that can change based on demand. However there is no limit on how many rooms you can join at a time!

 

# Features

 

* Use Google, Twitter, GitHub or Facebook to log in

* Create a new game, or join existing ones

* Reset the board for a rematch once the game is over

* Delete rooms you created, or leave rooms you've joined

* Possible moves are highlighted on the board

* Put a game on hold and resume it whenever you like

 

# Why FireChess?

This is a follow up to my [Online-Chess](https://github.com/Aveek-Saha/Online-Chess) project where I created a chess website using sockets and hosted it on Heroku.

 

At the time I had created the project as a showcase for websockets first and as an actual place to play chess second. However this project has had far more users on the website playing chess than I anticipated and I kept running out of resources for the free Heroku tier. This meant that I got a lot of complaints that the website was inaccessible.

 

FireChess was meant as an answer to this problem. This project stores the game state in a database rather than using web sockets to communicate. This means I'm no longer dependent on a server and I can move to serverless. Moving to firebase allows me to make the website available to far more people without exceeding usage limits.

# Privacy

### Why do I need to login?

Signing in helps keep all your rooms saved so you can resume playing at any time.

### What data is stored on the database?

The only personal information stored in the database is your display name from whatever auth provider you pick.