# thomas-mauran/chess-tui

Play chess in any terminal. Rust TUI, Stockfish, Lichess.

Repository: https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chess-tui
Homepage: https://thomas-mauran.github.io/chess-tui/
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: chess, game, ratatui, rust, tui, lichess, chess-puzzle, chessboard, command-line, cross-platform, rust-tools, stockfish, terminal, uci, pgn, pgn-reader
Last push: 2026-08-17T01:41:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 88/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 84, longevity 73
- inputs: {"age_days": 1023, "days_push": 17, "days_rel": 105, "gap_med": 8, "n_releases_24m": 20}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1160, forks 75 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:49.013945+00:00)

## What it is
chess-tui is a free, open-source terminal chess game written in Rust using Ratatui. It supports local two-player pass-and-play, playing against any UCI-compatible engine like Stockfish, online play and puzzles via Lichess, and network multiplayer.

## Use cases
- play chess in the terminal
- play against stockfish from the command line
- play lichess games from my terminal
- solve chess puzzles in a tui
- pass-and-play chess on one machine
- hook up any uci chess engine
- read and write pgn chess games

## When to choose
- you want to play chess without leaving the terminal
- you want a lightweight, cross-platform chess client with engine support
- you want Lichess integration in a TUI

## When to avoid
- you want a graphical chess interface with mouse-driven board interaction
- you need chess training features beyond puzzles
- you don't have a terminal or prefer web/mobile chess apps

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: game-engine, cli, terminal-ui
- domain: gaming-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cli, rust, cross-platform
- tags: chess, tui, ratatui, stockfish, lichess, uci, pgn, terminal-game, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- thomas-mauran/chess-tui (main) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:49.013945+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:31:50.172361+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thomas-mauran/chess-tui (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:49.013945+00:00, sha 749cb50010e2)
  - homepage: https://thomas-mauran.github.io/chess-tui/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:36:22.660558+00:00, sha 10e01bc54bfa)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/chess-tui (fetched 2026-08-29T12:36:22.663177+00:00, sha 8bf3d2b8799c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.