Gambit

Chess board in your terminal.

go install github.com/maaslalani/gambit@latest

or run from source

git clone https://github.com/maaslalani/gambit
go run ./...

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.