aveek-saha / firechess

Play online chess with your friends, powered by Firebase 🔥♟

Fire Chess

Play chess online with a friend, powered by Firebase.

Play here

How to play

1. Go to http://firechess0.web.app/
2. Log in with one of the auth providers.
3. Start playing:
   • Create a room and then share the room Id with a friend.
   • Get a room Id from a friend and join a room.

Yes, it's really that simple!

For now each player can only create up to 5 rooms, though this is a number that can change based on demand. However there is no limit on how many rooms you can join at a time!

Features

• Use Google, Twitter, GitHub or Facebook to log in
• Create a new game, or join existing ones
• Reset the board for a rematch once the game is over
• Delete rooms you created, or leave rooms you've joined
• Possible moves are highlighted on the board
• Put a game on hold and resume it whenever you like

Why FireChess?

This is a follow up to my Online-Chess project where I created a chess website using sockets and hosted it on Heroku.

At the time I had created the project as a showcase for websockets first and as an actual place to play chess second. However this project has had far more users on the website playing chess than I anticipated and I kept running out of resources for the free Heroku tier. This meant that I got a lot of complaints that the website was inaccessible.

FireChess was meant as an answer to this problem. This project stores the game state in a database rather than using web sockets to communicate. This means I'm no longer dependent on a server and I can move to serverless. Moving to firebase allows me to make the website available to far more people without exceeding usage limits.

Privacy

Why do I need to login?

Signing in helps keep all your rooms saved so you can resume playing at any time.

What data is stored on the database?

The only personal information stored in the database is your display name from whatever auth provider you pick.