Solid Chess

This is a decentralized Chess game, build on top of Solid. No central sever is required to run or set up a game. All personal data about the game is stored on your POD. Requests to join a game are sent to the inbox of your opponent directly. You have two types of games: a non-real-time and a real-time game. With a non-real-time game all updates are sent to the inbox of your opponent, who can interact with it when (s)he wants. With a real-time game WebRTC is used to allow for a direct communication between two instances of the Web app.

The game is available in the browser and terminal. Check the live version or one of the following screencasts:

WARNING: The "Clear inbox" button removes all files with (chess) game data in your inbox! So be careful!

Documentation

Code documentation can be found here.
If you want to know more about how the application interacts with different Solid PODs, you can read this.

What you can do

Create a new game, which will send a request to join to your opponent.
Join a game, which will send a response back to your opponent.
Continue a game you started earlier.

Used technologies/concepts/libraries

Linked Data: to represent/share the details of the games
Decentralization: information is fetched from different servers
Solid PODs: store personal data about the games
LDflex for Solid: simple access to data in Solid pods through LDflex expressions
SPARQL: query/update games
RDF: representation of the data
Comunica: querying different data sources
chess.js: chess engine
chessboard.js: chessboard

Install

Web app

You can run the game locally by doing the following:

Clone this repo.
npm i: install Node.js dependencies.
npm run build:web: bundle the JavaScript via Webpack. The result can be found in web-app/dist/main.js.
Serve the contents of the root folder, e.g., via http-server.

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