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It would be nice to go back and forward throughout history to look through the moves. This feature would go nicely with #25 to look through a game you have imported.

macOS 14 Terminal rendering doesn't seem to work

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

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.

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.

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

Problem

Currently cargo fmt and clippy are not checked in the ci which is not very clean

Solution

add a job in the ci

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

Problem

Material difference is not shown.

Solution

Display material difference in History.

Additional context

I guess Lichess has support for this too.

This would allow to play anonymously against online players.

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

Description

3 fold repetition only checks moves in a row, it should check if the position repeats regardless of order

To Reproduce

Play a game and repeat the position, outside of the same order

Expected behavior

Draw in all repetition scenarios

Environment

OS: Linux (NixOS)
Terminal Emulator: Alacritty

Additional context

This function just needs to be rewritten

    pub fn draw_by_repetition(&self) -> bool {
        if self.move_history.len() >= 9 {
            let last_ten: Vec<PieceMove> =
                self.move_history.iter().rev().take(9).cloned().collect();

            if (last_ten[0].clone(), last_ten[1].clone())
                == (last_ten[4].clone(), last_ten[5].clone())
                && last_ten[4].clone() == last_ten[8].clone()
                && (last_ten[2].clone(), last_ten[3].clone())
                    == (last_ten[6].clone(), last_ten[7].clone())
            {
                return true;
            }
        }
        false
    }

Description

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

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).

I'm trying to run chess-tui bot game with gnuchess engine.

Created script engine.sh:

#!/bin/sh
gnuchess --uci

Gave it execution permissions by chmod +x engine.sh.

Then run:
chess-tui -e /home/alex/script.sh
After selecting "Play against a bot", chess-tui just hangs.

Can you help me, please, what did I did wrong?

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

Implement a pgn export method

Solution

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

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"),
``

Problem

Be able to play as black

Solution

Implement it and be sure to remove all the hardcoded white values

Description

For now the chess-tui config file in which there is the engine path for the bot is created directly at the root of the home directory. (~/.chess-tui)

To Reproduce

Run chess-tui with -e option for the engine path and the configuration file will be created.

Expected behavior

The configuration file should be located in a chess-tui directory in the .config directory as follow : ~/.config/chess-tui/config.toml
Also, it would be better if the configuration file is created whether or not there is an option on launch of chess-tui.

Environment

• OS: Arch Linux
• Terminal Emulator: Fish

Import a pgn game position

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

Problem

Old school ascii mode, just like in gnuchess. The player has uppercase letters and the enemy has lowercase letters.
p = pawn, k = king, q = queen, b = bishop, r = rook, n = knight

Description

the code could use & instead of clones for move_history

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

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

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" }

Home menu

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

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

Description

KeyEvents are reported twice Windows as Windows reports a KeyPress and a KeyRelease.
Therefore everything acts strangely, the app is unused.

To Reproduce

You could try this app on Windows 10/11 or maybe anything else, but as it might be impossible, you could believe me.

Expected behavior

Check whether a KeyEvent is a KeyPress and if not, ignore.

Screenshots

Environment

• OS: Windows 11
• Terminal Emulator: windows terminal
• Crate version: git main
• Backend: crossterm

Feature Request

A question: Mouse support? Is it technically possible?