# Gambit

Chess board in your terminal.

### Play

```

    ┌───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┬───┐
 8  │ ♜ │ ♞ │ ♝ │ ♛ │ ♚ │ ♞ │ ♝ │ ♜ │
    ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
 7  │ ♟ │ ♟ │ ♟ │ ♟ │ ♟ │ ♟ │ ♟ │ ♟ │
    ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
 6  │   │   │   │   │   │   │   │   │
    ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
 5  │   │   │   │   │   │   │   │   │
    ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
 4  │   │   │   │   │   │   │   │   │
    ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
 3  │   │   │   │   │   │   │   │   │
    ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
 2  │ ♙ │ ♙ │ ♙ │ ♙ │ ♙ │ ♙ │ ♙ │ ♙ │
    ├───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┼───┤
 1  │ ♖ │ ♘ │ ♗ │ ♕ │ ♔ │ ♘ │ ♗ │ ♖ │
    └───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┴───┘

      A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H


```

### 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
<kbd>ctrl+f</kbd> 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.