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Norco CollegeCIS-5 37256the chess game

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The Game of Chess 1. Objective The objective of this assignment is to practice concepts related to inheritance, overriding, polymorphism, and abstract classes, to program the basics of a chess playing program. No, we are not implementing Deep Blue . We are just creating a toy version that lets you set up pieces on the board, move them, and find possible moves given a certain position. Because we are simplifying so many rules, we'll call this game, Modified chESS or MESS! Description Chess is played on an 8 X 8 board where the initial placement of pieces is as shown in the following figure, taken from Wikipedia Note the indexing scheme. The white king is on e1, and the black king is on e8. Familiarize yourself with the names of the pieces. Each chess piece can move in a specific way. Details of the original rules are provided here (Links to an external site.). However, we will follow a simplified version in this assignment. Most importantly, we will ignore an important rule in chess: Moving any piece in a way that puts your own king in check is illegal. Since we don't know what check means, for us a move is legal if the piece we are moving has an empty square to move to or can capture (replace) an opponent's piece (including their king, although that's also illegal in real chess).  The king does not move at all. Nor can it castle (Links to an external site.). The queen and knight can't move either.  A pawn in the initial position may move one or two squares vertically forward to an empty square but cannot leap over any piece. Subsequently it can move only one square vertically forward to an empty square. A pawn may also capture (replace) an opponent's piece diagonally one square in front of it. Pawns can never move backwards. These are the only moves; we will not implement the En passant (Links to an external site.) rule and will also not allow promotion (Links to an external site.) to another piece if the pawn reaches the end of the column.  A rook can move any number of squares horizontally or vertically, forward or backward, as long as it does not have to leap over other pieces. At the end of the move, it can occupy a previously empty square or capture (replace) an opponent's piece but it cannot replace another piece of the same player.  A bishop can move any number of squares diagonally in any direction as long as it does not have to leap over other pieces. At the end of the move, it can occupy a previously empty square or capture (replace) an opponent's piece but it cannot replace another piece of the same player.

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