thomas-mauran / chess-tui

A chess TUI implementation in rust 🦀

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Dev: Rust, C, TypeScript, Python, Go, Kotlin, Java

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Databases: Postgresql, MongoDB, Elasticsearch

OS: Ubuntu, Debian, Mac OS

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chess-tui's Issues

docs: contributing md

feat(board): is getting checked

Material difference

Problem

Material difference is not shown.

Solution

Display material difference in History.

Additional context

I guess Lichess has support for this too.

feat(board): checkmate and restart of a new game

ci: add a ci for test, linting and build

Algebraic moves

Problem

Moves are in UCI style (e2-e4 / b1-c3). It would be nicer if these were in Algebraic style (e4 / Nc3) or perhaps an option for figurine style using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode

feat: release process

feat(board): make border transparent

Problem

the boards automatically creates border for the cells to be the same size, but the borders aren´t looking great everytime

Solution

We could use cross term to get the color of the terminal and set in ui the border color to this background color

Error : No such file or directory

Tried to use the docker image, and see this error in the logs.
Are any volume mappings necessary for this to work ?

Am I correct to assume that I will be able to play the game via browser if the container is up and running ?
I dont see a mention of any ports, so I assume its port 80 by default ?

Error: Os { code: 2, kind: NotFound, message: "No such file or directory" }
Error: Os { code: 11, kind: WouldBlock, message: "Resource temporarily unavailable" }
Error: Os { code: 11, kind: WouldBlock, message: "Resource temporarily unavailable" }
Error: Os { code: 11, kind: WouldBlock, message: "Resource temporarily unavailable" }
Error: Os { code: 11, kind: WouldBlock, message: "Resource temporarily unavailable" }

Config file storage

Description

As for now, the config file (containing chess-engine path) seems to be stored under $HOME/.chess-tui.

Expected behavior

It would be a lot better to store it under $HOME/.config/chess-tui/chess-engine.toml or something. The dirs crate fits the purpose to resolve this issue I think.

Environment

• OS: Arch Linux
• Terminal Emulator: Alacritty
• Font: Recursive (patched)
• Crate version: latest git
• Backend: crossterm

feat: pgn import

Import a pgn game position

Be able to select a file to import as a new game position

chore: update helper

feat: Implement UCI (Universal Chess Interface)

Implement UCI

UCI is an interface made to communicate between a UI and a chess engine. Implementing UCI will let us connect to chess engines like Stockfish or Lichess api to play against other players

fix(ci): trigger only docker push on main push

Description

We only want to trigger this action when there is a new push on man

docs: pr template

Bug: macOS 14 Terminal rendering doesn't seem to work

macOS 14 Terminal rendering doesn't seem to work

macOS 14 Terminal rendering doesn't seem to work. See image.

Do not allow selecting a piece that is not allowed to move

Problem

For first move, you can select a piece with not allowed move. This can be easily removed.

Solution

Update select_cell method to add a control before executing any other conditions.

Add rudimentary lichess client support

This would allow to play anonymously against online players.

feat(pawn): promotion

feat(pieces): pinning using is getting checked

feat: implement a chess engine link and a way to play against a bot

docs: issue templates

feat: help popup

Some extra unicode blocks to look at

Hey, this is a cool idea :)

I just wanted to point you to some unicode blocks that I've found that could be useful in making cool looking chess symbols:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Shapes_(Unicode_block)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing

Add "Escape" event to helper menu

Problem

First try, I didn't know how to deselect the piece selected by mistake.

Solution

Add this following line into ui.rs:

Line::from("ESCAPE : Deselect a piece or cancel a move"),
``

refactor: use less clones

Description

the code could use & instead of clones for move_history

feat(king): castling

feat: new demos gifs for the readme

feat: draw by 50 moves and position repetition draw

chore: update helper

fix(historic): line 8 is translated to 0

Description

When moving a piece from the 8th row (black first one) the historic indicates a 0 instead of an 8.

To Reproduce

• move a piece from the 8th row and check the historic

Expected behavior

display 8 instead of 0

Screenshots

Keyboard shortcuts for moves

Problem

You have to manually select a square to move a piece, which is a bit tedious.

Solution

It would be good to be able to quickly use the keyboard for this (e.g a5 or Nc3).

feat(pawn): en passant

feat: home menu

Home menu

Implement a home menu when starting the game with the following options:

• New game
• Play against a bot
• Import a game

Takeback

Problem

Sometimes enter gets pressed accidentally, which is kind of annoying.

Solution

A character like backspace could be assigned to takeback.

Additional context

As far as I'm concerned lichess has a feature like this too, so it is useful when lichess integration is done.

docs: update readme

test(board): add tests for the board main functions

feat: pgn export

Implement a pgn export method

Solution

• Create a new method to convert move_history into pgn
• store it into a file