A Windows command line application to play chess (specifically) using the command prompt.
Project description
A Windows command line application to play chess (specifically) using the command prompt.
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
Blocked moves exceptions left uncatched
Check and 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
Help: cmdchess --help
License
This package is open sourced under the MIT license.
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