gambit

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.