BrainStone / utf8-console-chess

A little application to render FEN positions in the console with UTF-8 characters.

utf8-console-chess

A little application to render FEN positions in the console with UTF-8 characters.

Ambitions to turn into a fully fledged chess application that supports external chess engines.

Usage

Usage: ./u8cc [OPTION]... [FEN]
A little application to render FEN positions in the console with UTF-8 characters.

  -h, --help                 display this message and exit

  -f, --file FILE            instead of from the arguments, read the FEN from
                             FILE, or when FILE is -, read from standard input
      --stdin                equivalent to -f -

  -d, --double-size          print the chess board in a larger font. This may
                             not be supported by all consoles
  -i, --invert-board         print the board from black's perspective

Example:

Note: Only the position part until the first space in the FEN string is required. The rest after it is ignored anyways.

Building

This is CMake project.

So all you have to do to build it is run these commands

cmake .
make

Then you'll have the binary u8cc in the same directory.
If you just want to build the binary without the tests, append the parameter u8cc to the make command.