CLI Chess

Highly customizable way to play chess in your terminal.

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A highly customizable terminal chess client that lets players play online through Lichess or offline against the Fairy-Stockfish engine, with support for all Lichess variants. It keeps gameplay entirely in the terminal so developers and command-line enthusiasts can play without switching to a browser or graphical app.

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