Awesome
<img src="./assets/gambit.png?raw=true" alt="Gambit: Play chess in your terminal" />Gambit
Chess board in your terminal.
Installation
go install github.com/maaslalani/gambit@latest
or run from source
git clone https://github.com/maaslalani/gambit
go run ./...
Docker
Gambit is available as a Docker image at ghcr.io/maaslalani/gambit.
Play
You can play a game by running:
gambit
You can press <kbd>ctrl+f</kbd> to flip the board to give a better perspective for the second player.
<br/> <p align="center"> <img width="90%" src="./assets/chess.gif?raw=true" alt="Terminal chess" /> </p>Networked Play
You can play chess with gambit over ssh.
ssh [<name>@]<host> -p <port> -t <room> [<password>]
You can host your own gambit SSH server with:
gambit serve
Move
There are two ways to move in gambit:
- Type out the square the piece you want to move is on, then type out the square to which you want to move the piece.
- With the mouse, click on the target piece and target square.