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Welcome, brisk-otter

Your games:

Date	Color	Opponent	Outcome	Method
2026-06-17 08:12	white	brisk-otter	win	checkmate
2026-06-16 21:04	black	calm-finch	loss	resignation
2026-06-15 14:33	white	keen-lynx	draw	stalemate
2026-06-14 19:01	black	witty-mole	win	timeout

Intro splash

ASCII rook + TERM CHESS wordmark, pink welcome, and games history table.

Move 6 · White to move · Bf4

Opponent played …Bd6.

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move>Bf4

London System

London System mid-game (~6 moves) with Bf4 selected and legal squares lit.

Pages

Intro
Profile and game history
Game
Play a game
Bot
Play vs computer (untimed)
Privacy
Data rights and deletion

↑/↓ · navigate · enter · open · esc · back

Page menu

Charm-style Bubbles list with purple Pages chip and pink selection.

Play vs Computer

1500 · white

Start a game: ctrl+n

Your bot games:

Date	Level	Color	Outcome	Method
2026-06-17 09:40	1500	white	win	checkmate
2026-06-16 18:22	1100	black	loss	resignation
2026-06-15 11:05	1700	white	draw	agreement
2026-06-14 22:17	1300	black	win	timeout
2026-06-12 15:03	1500	white	win	checkmate

Bot lobby

Play vs Computer level/color picker and bot games history table.

Time control: 3 min (press 1/3/5 to change)

Create a game: ctrl+n

Join a random game: ctrl+r

Join by code: type the 6-character game code below and press enter

game code>XK9Z46

Created game XK9Z46 — waiting for opponent.

No game

PvP lobby

Game Page matchmaking: time control, join prompt, cream-on-purple notice.

SoftwareService

TermChess

Chess over SSH, in your terminal

What

Chess over SSH — real-time multiplayer with time controls, or solo games against rated bots.

Technicals

A Go server serves the Bubble Tea TUI over Wish/SSH. Shared managers own multiplayer state, clocks, and bot games; Postgres keeps history. Bots call a self-hosted lc0 engine behind a small JSON move API.

Why

For a deeper understanding of SSH-based client-server and game architectures — Bubble Tea's update loop follows the Elm Architecture — and for fun!

Where

Marketing site GitHub