VisiChess

This is a version of chess which shows you which pieces are currently protected and threatened, and by how many other pieces. The idea with this is to help prevent some of the most frustrating blunders in chess where you just fail to see a really obvious move and then lose the game. The guiding idea is for newer players to spend more time on the strategy, tactics and interesting decisions in the game rather than expending a lot of mental effort "proof-reading" their moves.

The AI is provided by a modified Lua version of the Garbo chess engine: https://github.com/Chessforeva/Lua4chess/blob/master/garbochess.lua. Player plays as white, the engine as black.

This is a quick prototype so might have some bugs or crash occasionally. If the player is checkmated, this is not implemented, and nor is en passant.

Created with Love2d