chess-cli ♟️

A chess tui app written in Go.
_{Play locally with a friend or online with Lichess!}

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chess-cli is a tui (terminal user interface) that allows you to play chess, both offline with a friend or online as a Lichess api client.

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Features

• Mouse input support
• Displays move history
• UCI chess notation input
• Saving and restoring local games
• Lichess features:
  • Lichess login w/ oauth
  • Lichess challenge request for real time, unlimited, or correspondence games, with all variants and options supported
  • Challenge a friend or a random player
  • Play against the stockfish AI
  • Join ongoing games
  • Join from your incoming challenges

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dependency documentation:

https://lichess.org/api for lichess

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/notnil/chess chess lib

https://docs.rocketnine.space/code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview/ cview

https://code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview/src/branch/master/demos cview demos

https://pkg.go.dev/net/http

https://mholt.github.io/json-to-go/

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todo:

general

• Handle all notation types or choose notation to start

local client

• add time options

oauth

• handle if oauth rejected mid process

online

• exit option on loader
• challenge construction
  • set default interval position for sliders
  • custom starting position option for challenges
• client
  • chat
  • rematch option post game

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