chess.sh

chess game written in shell-script.

About

chess.sh is a small chess game that runs in your terminal. It uses ascii characters and color codes to render the chess board and figures.

  A B C D E F G H
1[♖]♘[♗]♔[♕]♗[♘]♖  
2 ♙[♙]♙[♙]♙[♙]♙[♙]
3[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] 
4  [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
5[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] 
6  [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
7[♟]♟[♟]♟[♟][♟]♟
8 ♜[♞]♝[♚]♛[♝]♞[♜] 

Features

• show board and figures
• use color 🌈
• move figures 🏃
• list captured/taken figures
• highlight column and rows
• show possible moves
• history

Usage

./chess.sh

Move a figure in the form of [from column][from row]:[to column][to row]. Columns are specified with a letter from A to H. Rows are specified with a number from 1 to 8.

Inspiration ✨

• GNU Chess - Play chess against the computer in a terminal and an engine for graphical chess frontends

Authors

• Gero Beckmann - Initial work - Geronymos

License

This project is licensed under the GPT-3 License - see the LICENSE file for details