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Dev tools · December 15, 2025

Chess-tui

Chess-tui: play chess from your terminal 🦀

What it does

Chess TUI is a terminal-based chess client written in Rust that lets you play chess directly from your command line, whether it’s local games, bot matches, or real-time online games on Lichess. Built for developers and terminal enthusiasts, it delivers a clean, responsive TUI while staying lightweight, fast, and fully keyboard-driven. Try it out by yourself at https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui

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  • CT
    Chess-TUI Play Lichess games in your terminal (Rust)Dec 2025 · github.com · ▲5

    Hi HN, I’ve released a new version of chess-tui, a Rust terminal UI for playing live games against Lichess opponents. The update includes a cleaner TUI, better performance, improved keybindings, and smoother real-time integration with the Lichess API. It’s designed as a simple, fast way to play chess without leaving the terminal. Repo:https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui Feedback and bug reports are welcome. Happy to answer questions!

  • TP
    Termichess – Play chess in your terminal2024 · github.com · ▲50

    Hey everyone, I have been trying to build a terminal based app for sometime now and this is an attempt at trying to build a chess app that one can play right inside terminal. I was inspired by `chess-tui`[1] which is a rust based project and was looking to build something similar using python. Luckily I stumbled upon textual[2] recently and it made my task of building this far more easier than I thought. [1] https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui [2] https://github.com/textualize/textual

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    Chessterm – Rust-based terminal chess engine for chess notation2025 · github.com · ▲6

    Hi HN! I just built chessterm, a Rust-powered TUI chess engine to practice chess notation (PGN) for an upcoming chess competition. This was also a way for me to learn Rust more deeply, particularly bitboards for move generation and terminal UI development with ratatui Unlike typical chess UIs that wrap around Stockfish, this is built completely from scratch, with: - PGN-only input (no AI, just human vs human) - Bitboard-based move generation (u64, precomputed attack masks) - Built with ratatui for a smooth terminal experience Would love to hear your feedback!

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