This is a two player game of chess programmed in Java. The output and input are text based.

To play this game simply download the code and run it in any Java IDE.

The rules of the game are as in any game of chess. Upon runtime the program will generate a text based representation of the chess board. It will then promt the user to enter their next move, accepting only inputs in the form of (starting coordinates,end coordinates), any other input will result in a runtime exception. If the move is valid the corresponding piece will be moved and the game will ask for the next players move.

The program uses various classes to create the components of a chess game. The pieces are created using individual classes of each type, which all inherit from a generic "Piece" class. The board is stored in a "Board" class, while the instructions for the running of the game are stored in the "ChessGame" class, which contains the main method. The chess board is generated through the creation of a 2D array of Tile objects. Each Tile object has a piece registered to it and most of the operations that the various methods perform envoke the fields of a given Tile object.