cli-chess
A highly customizable way to play chess in your terminal / command line. Play online (via Lichess.org) and offline against the Fairy-Stockfish engine. All Lichess variants are supported. (by trevorbayless)
external-engine
Using engines running outside of the browser on https://lichess.org/analysis (by lichess-org)
cli-chess | external-engine | |
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154 | 69 | |
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7.6 | 3.7 | |
7 months ago | 12 days ago | |
Python | Python | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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cli-chess
Posts with mentions or reviews of cli-chess.
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Play chess in your terminal
I've been working on a program for a while which allows playing chess (online or offline) in your terminal. I published the initial release a couple days ago and have been excited to share it around! The project is called [cli-chess](https://github.com/trevorbayless/cli-chess).
external-engine
Posts with mentions or reviews of external-engine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-05.
- If chess.com came as a game you installed on your computer (say through steam), wouldn't it be able to leverage your hardware to run faster and better analysis?
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I've developed ChessMonitor.com: a website to show chess analytics. Here is an example for Eric Rosen. Connect to Lichess/Chess.com to get your own stats (link in comments)
Users can run a Stockfish instance locally, and then connect to it via UCI (Universal Chess Interface). Here's an example from Lichess: https://github.com/lichess-org/external-engine
- Mac users - decent database and engine for club player
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Chess.com vs lichess analysis board engine strength
lichess does now give you the ability to use an external engine over a websocket though.
- Event: 2022 Sinquefield Cup
- PSA: You can use an external engine with Lichess
- stockfish lvl 8 (the highest on lichess) just played the Halloween gambit against me? Why on earth would it do this?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cli-chess and external-engine you can also consider the following projects:
xonsh - :shell: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell.
lila-http - Handle some https://lichess.org/tournament load
lichs - ♟ Play chess against real players in your terminal using Lichess
python-chess-engine - Documentative UCI Chess Engine in Python
googler - :mag: Google from the terminal
stockfish.wasm - WebAssembly port of the strong chess engine Stockfish
cheat.sh - the only cheat sheet you need
ddgr - :duck: DuckDuckGo from the terminal
buku - :bookmark: Personal mini-web in text