64squar.es, jQuery-Powered Online Chess
Today, jQuery community member Jonah Fox just launched 64squar.es, a completely free, fully featured and easy to use online chess site with a clean simple interface. Users can play opponents in real-time by dragging and dropping the pieces just like a real chess board. Ajax is used to make your moves on the opponent's board and vice versa.
64squar.es is built using Ruby on Rails and Jquery. It also uses Juggernaut (a ruby on rails plugin ) to remove the need for polling to improve responsiveness and ease future scaling. Many exciting features are planned for the coming months. More features include :
- Customize board color
- In game chat
- Take-backs
- Avatars
- Implementation of ELO Ranking
- Email Notification
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