Play chess in your terminal

Gambit

Chess board in your terminal.


Terminal chess


Warning

gambit does not have many features at the moment. I plan on adding a chess engine, mouse support, timers, networked play, game replays, etc...

Move

Suppose you want to open as white with Pawn E4. You will first select the square with the piece you want to move by typing E2, then type the square of the desired end position E4.

Just like a real chess board, gambit currently supports illegal moves. This will likely change in the future.

Players

gambit supports local and networked play. You can play a local game by running gambit and moving the pieces. You can flip the board by pressing ctrl+f to allow the second player to go.

For networked play (not available yet), both players can run gambit unique-room-id, this will connect both players to a shared room in which both can take turns making moves.

Owner
Maas Lalani
Maas Lalani
https://github.com/maaslalani/gambit
Comments
  • Networked play over ssh

    Networked play over ssh

    Hi Maas,

    This is still wip networked play using ssh and wish 😃 it still needs some brushing up and more testing but so far it looks good. Lmk what you think.

    You can start the server by running gambit serve. By default, it runs on port 53531, generates an ed25519 key at the root directory gambit_ed25519, and binds to localhost.

  • Docker, workflows, and docs

    Docker, workflows, and docs

    • Add Docker builds (hosted at ghcr.io/maaslalani/gambit)
    • Use Goreleaser for releases (pushing a new tag will trigger the release workflow)
    • Add license and update readme
    • Add version info cli argument
  • [Feature request] Publish binaries, brew packages, deb and rpm packages :-)

    [Feature request] Publish binaries, brew packages, deb and rpm packages :-)

    This will make is cool chess game highly accessible for everyone :-)

    I use goreleaser for all my go projects to acheive the same

    https://goreleaser.com/

    Example repo (my repo): https://github.com/kishaningithub/shopify-csv-download/releases

    Let me know if you are fine with this, i can work on a PR for the same :-)

  • update README.md

    update README.md

    When copying and pasting into the terminal from the README, it doesn't work.

    git clone github.com/maaslalani/gambit

    The new fix is by adding https:// and that works.

  • Board is misaligned in ChromeOS Terminal

    Board is misaligned in ChromeOS Terminal

    Please see images below: image

    image

    I think this is actually two separate issues. For the more obvious one, causing the 'white' pawns to be off of the board: I believe this is due to selective emoji support in the terminal. Some glyphs are printed as, well, glyphs, and others as emojis.

    I am not sure how to fix this just yet.

    However, the glyph-only rows are also uneven with the rest of the board.

    Can we add a command to adjust the whitespace length or something to fix the rendering? (i.e. the user types the spacebar and the width of all squares increase except for those containing a piece).

    Sorry, I am just brainstorming here a bit, hopefully this isn't spam.

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