Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: cmdchess
Version: 0.1.1
Summary: A Windows command line application to play chess (specifically) using the command prompt.
Home-page: https://github.com/leonarduschen/cmdchess
Author: leonarduschen
Author-email: leonardus.chen@gmail.com
License: MIT
Platform: UNKNOWN
Description-Content-Type: text/x-rst

cmdchess
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A Windows command line application to play chess (specifically) using the command prompt.

Overview
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Note: This project is still a work in progress and errors are expected to be fixed in a few days.

This project aims to serve as the go-to command line chess application for Windows users. As more and more windows users are becoming power users, a light-weight CLI chess application provides great convenience to access chess puzzles - which hopefully enables chess enthusiasts to practice more often and improve their tacticical abilities.

Since most command-line chess applications are catered to Unicode consoles (and somewhat alienating Windows users), the project has been developed to cater to ASCII consoles - and therefore can be run in what Windows users are familiar with: ``cmd.exe``

Upcoming core featues

* Short-algebraic notation to input moves
* Popular chess variants (e.g. chess960, horde)
* Puzzles from databases
* Popular games history

Errors

* Blocked moves exceptions left uncatched
* Check and checkmate
* Promotion

**Source location**

Hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/leonarduschen/cmdchess

**Installation**

``pip install cmdchess``


Quick Start
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Launch app: ``cmdchess``

Run on unicode console: ``cmdchess -utf``

Help: ``cmdchess --help``


License
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This package is open sourced under the MIT license.

