Chess-tui – play chess directly from your terminal

Summary: Chess-tui is a Rust-based terminal chess client enabling local, bot, and real-time online games on Lichess. It offers a fast, lightweight, and fully keyboard-driven text user interface designed for terminal environments.

What it does

Chess-tui provides a responsive terminal interface to play chess locally, against bots, or online via Lichess, using a Rust architecture optimized for speed and reliability.

Who it's for

It targets developers, terminal users, and chess enthusiasts who prefer playing chess within a command-line environment.

Why it matters

It solves the need for a full-featured, efficient chess client that operates entirely in the terminal without graphical dependencies.