chess-cli
chess-cli is a cli for playing chess against an UCI compatible engine written in go
Note: Chess pieces are in unicode, so the color may seem swapped.
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Usage
$ chess-cli --help
Chess-cli is a CLI to play chess against an UCI engine of your choice with the ability to
specify depth
Usage:
chess-cli [command]
Available Commands:
analyze Get lichess analyze urls on your games
delete Delete your chess games from database
help Help about any command
list List all your games (default will only show on-going games)
play Play/Continue a chess game
puzzle Play a daily lichess puzzle
resign Resign on your chess games
Flags:
-h, --help help for chess-cli
-t, --toggle Help message for toggle
Examples
Playing against an engine
$ chess-cli play engine --help
Start a game against an engine
Usage:
chess-cli play engine [flags]
Flags:
--color string choose your color: white/black (default random)
-d, --depth int Set the engine depth to search x piles only (default 3)
-h, --help help for engine
--name string Set the name of the game (default random)
-p, --path string Set the UCI chess engine path (required)
$ chess-cli play engine -p "D:\Programming\stockfish.exe" --depth 5 --color white
List games
$ chess-cli list --help
List all your games (default will only show on-going games)
Usage:
chess-cli list [flags]
Flags:
-a, --all show all games with board
-e, --engine show games' engine configuration
-h, --help help for list
Resign games
$ chess-cli resign --help
Resign on your chess games
Usage:
chess-cli resign [game-names...] [flags]
Flags:
-h, --help help for resign
$ chess-cli resign tZHpL fromsettingNameFlag getGameNamesFromTheListCommand thisiscasesensitiveAlso
You resigned on Game "tZHpL" Status: 0-1, Resignation
You resigned on Game "fromsettingNameFlag" Status: 1-0, Resignation
Game "getGameNamesFromTheListCommand" doesn't exist.
Game "thisiscasesensitiveAlso" doesn't exist.
Delete games
$ chess-cli delete --help
Delete your chess games from database
Usage:
chess-cli delete [game-names...] [flags]
Flags:
-h, --help help for delete
$ chess-cli delete wzfhz tZHpL
Game "wzfhz" is deleted.
Game "tZHpL" is deleted.
Get lichess analysis url for games
$ chess-cli analyze --help
Get lichess analyze urls on your games
Usage:
chess-cli analyze [game-names...] [flags]
Flags:
-h, --help help for analyze
$ chess-cli analyze wzfhz tZHpL blahblah
Analyze Game "wzfhz" on lichess: https://lichess.org/L7vPPR5e
Analyze Game "tZHpL" on lichess: https://lichess.org/SP6l4EFe
Game "blahblah" doesn't exist.
Play a daily puzzle from lichess
$ chess-cli puzzle -h
Play a daily lichess puzzle
Usage:
chess-cli puzzle [flags]
Flags:
-h, --help help for puzzle
