Chessboard in D3

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Chessboard in D3

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Last edited Mar 28, 2023

Created on Mar 23, 2023

This interactive chessboard visualizes classic opening moves in chess. A drop-down menu allows selection among several openings, including the Slav Defense, Italian Game, and French Defense. The board is rendered as an SVG grid of beige and tan squares, with chess pieces drawn using Unicode characters. Selecting an opening triggers step-by-step animations using chained `transition()` calls to move pieces across the board. The code uses D3.js v7 for SVG manipulation and transitions, with data loaded from a CSV of chess games.

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Project momentum: Create a chess board for visualizing different opening moves and add a drop down menu. Will work on adding transistions to show opening moves in next project momentum milestone.

Chessboard: https://vizhub.com/bubbabjh/dd41adfe75f244a3a22978703eb86f88?edit=files&file=index.js and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27806132/how-to-draw-a-chess-board-in-d3 and https://codepen.io/VividD/pen/bNgGKP?editors=1010

Menu: https://vizhub.com/curran/52a1685a470b40f4ad224094e3bb148f?edit=files&file=viz.js

Animation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36102591/chess-moves-in-d3

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