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https://github.com/maaslalani/gambit
Play chess in your terminal
https://github.com/maaslalani/gambit
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Play chess in your terminal
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/maaslalani/gambit
- Owner: maaslalani
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-12-02T01:43:06.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-11-21T14:49:24.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-01-17T20:14:56.725Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: chess, terminal
- Language: Go
- Homepage:
- Size: 6.16 MB
- Stars: 689
- Watchers: 12
- Forks: 29
- Open Issues: 7
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Gambit
Chess board in your terminal.
### Installation
```sh
go install github.com/maaslalani/gambit@latest
```
or run from source
```sh
git clone https://github.com/maaslalani/gambit
go run ./...
```
#### Docker
Gambit is available as a Docker image at [ghcr.io/maaslalani/gambit](https://ghcr.io/maaslalani/gambit).
### Play
You can play a game by running:
```
gambit
```
You can press ctrl+f to flip the board to give a better perspective
for the second player.
### Networked Play
You can play chess with `gambit` over `ssh`.
```
ssh [@] -p -t []
```
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.