Chess board in your terminal.
Chess board in your terminal.
You'll need to connect the interfaces:
sudo snap connect gambit:ssh-keys
sudo snap connect gambit:ssh-public-keys
Usage:
gambit
gambit [command]
Available Commands:
completion
Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
help
Help about any command
serve
Start a Gambit server
Flags:
-h, --help
help for gambit
-v, --version
version for gambit
Use gambit [command] --help
for more information about a command.
Networked Play
You can play chess with gambit over ssh
.
ssh user@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
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.