Once again, it’s been a while since the last episode in the series. This time the culprit has been a relocation for the remainder of the winter, which meant I was dealing with moving-like logistics. However I’m holed up now in the south, where I’ll spend the winter working on my book, working remotely, and…
In this episode of the Chess TDD series, I start working on implementing check by implementing the more general concept of threatened pieces.
In this episode, it seems I finally got the hang of castling. It’s been a relatively long journey with it, but I can now successfully detect castling situations that involve any combination of rook/king prior movement, as well as interceding pieces. The only thing left to go is the relative edge case of a castling…
The last few episodes featured heads down implementation around this new CastlingStatusChecker class. It was nice to spend some time writing relatively simple unit tests to restore some sanity and get away from an overly-coupled Board class. But, it was time to come up for some air and get back to proving some business/domain value….
After a couple of episodes working on castling for white, and then an episode refactoring that implementation, it’s finally time to implement castling for black pieces. This actually went pretty well. The groundwork that I had laid in the previous episodes made life a lot easier for me here. It wasn’t perfect, by the end,…
