cmdchess

A Windows command line application to play chess (specifically) using the command prompt.

Documentation

https://cmdchess.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Overview

Note: This project is still a work in progress and errors are expected to be fixed in a few days.

This project aims to serve as the go-to command line chess application for Windows users. As more and more windows users are becoming power users, a light-weight CLI chess application provides great convenience to access chess puzzles - which hopefully enables chess enthusiasts to practice more often and improve their tacticical abilities.

Since most command-line chess applications are catered to Unicode consoles (and somewhat alienating Windows users), the project has been developed to cater to ASCII consoles - and therefore can be run in what Windows users are familiar with: cmd.exe

Upcoming core featues

• Short-algebraic notation to input moves
• Popular chess variants (e.g. chess960, horde)
• Puzzles from databases
• Popular games history

Errors

• Checkmate
• Promotion

Source location

Hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/leonarduschen/cmdchess

Installation

pip install cmdchess

Quick Start

Launch app: cmdchess

Run on unicode console: cmdchess -utf

Run with yellow board color: cmdchess -y

Help: cmdchess --help

License

This package is open sourced under the MIT license.