https://github.com/maaslalani/gambit

Play chess in your terminal
https://github.com/maaslalani/gambit

chess terminal

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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 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-25T15:00:41.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-01T15:08:05.052Z (23 days ago)
• Topics: chess, terminal
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 6.16 MB
• Stars: 844
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 32
• Open Issues: 10
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        


# 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.