Chess-TUI Play Lichess games in your terminal (Rust)
Details
- External ID
- 46230930
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- games
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 11, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10400763358778627
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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-tuiFeedback and bug reports are welcome. Happy to answer questions!
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent games and chess tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal interface for playing lichess chess
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Connecting to the public Lichess streaming HTTP/WebSocket API and rendering board states using a terminal library like Ratatui in Rust is a classic weekend coding project.
Discussion
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