Tag: chess

Set parent class attribute in a child class

I trying to make a chess game and I will have a class for each chess piece but they will all extend class Piece. Piece class has a maxMovementDistance attribute but I would like to set that attribute in the child class (king, queen, pawn etc.) and it should also be final. What’s the best way to do this? Or

Check if a char is in a 2D array in java

I have been working on my homework of creating a simple chess program. The chessboard is a 2D array, named board. The pieces are all single chars like R,Q,K, and empty space is filled with a ‘ ‘ char, so a space. The method get should return the char or whatever is there on the coordinate (x,y). And the problem

How should I filter out blocked chess moves?

As the title describes I would like to know how I should filter out invalid moves for a chess piece. The board is represented with a Map Where Position is an Enum with …