Playing chess in your terminal

Known to be over 1,200 years old, chess remains a key test of strategy, mental ability, computational power and is generally a good way of passing the time. If you can represent an eight by eight grid with suitable symbols for the pieces then you can have a game of chess. So why not play chess in your terminal?

While we wait for Jonni to write something far more engaging and informative on how to have fun with chess and open source, we’ll have to make do with the slim pickings we can squeeze into these