gambit/README.md

Gambit

Chess board in your terminal.

Installation

go install github.com/maaslalani/gambit@latest

or run from source

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

Play

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.

Move

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.

Future

In the future, gambit will support:

• networked play, where two players can run gabmit unique-room-id and play together through peer-to-peer communication.

• Single player games, by adding a chess engine