Chess board in your terminal.
go install github.com/maaslalani/gambit@latestor run from source
git clone https://github.com/maaslalani/gambit
go run ./...Gambit is available as a Docker image at ghcr.io/maaslalani/gambit.
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.
You can play chess with gambit over ssh.
ssh [<name>@]<host> -p <port> -t <room> [<password>]
You can host your own gambit SSH server with:
gambit serve
Or, use the hosted gambit server at chess.fyi:
ssh user@chess.fyi -p 2200 -t foobar password
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.