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CLUSTER CHESS-GAME-TERMINAL · 13 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-09-22

Terminal board and strategy games

This cluster consists of terminal-based implementations of classic board games (chess, Go, Battleship, Connect 4, tic-tac-toe, Hex) plus a command-line training game for keyboard shortcuts and filesystem navigation. Entries appear sporadically from August 2017 to May 2026, with brief peaks of two entries in April 2023 and May 2026. The traction leaders by activity signal are ssh-battleships, goterm, and zigmate, though all have zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2015: 1AUG 2017: 1APR 2023: 2JUN 2024: 1DEC 2025: 1APR 2026: 1MAY 2026: 2AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 1
SEP 2015OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 9 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 1 indie · 10 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 13 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01chess-analyzer-tui0★4 daysliveopen sourceTerminal chess analyzer that loads games from files, standard input, or clipboard and evaluates positions using any UCI chess engine.
  2. 02dchess0★17 daysliveopen sourceTerminal-based chess game that includes an engine, analysis, puzzles, and UCI support.
  3. 03Colosseum0★23 days—hobbyTerminal game where two AI agents control separate processes and fight to kill each other before the opponent wins.
  4. 04goterm0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal game that lets users play the board game Go/Baduk/Weiqi in their terminal.
  5. 05zigmate0★4 molivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal chess game that supports local two-player hot-seat matches and networked play over SSH.
  6. 06cboard0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal-based chess application that browses and edits PGN game files and connects to chess engines for play and analysis.
  7. 07tuichess0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal chess game featuring a minimax engine with alpha-beta pruning and a text-based board for playing against the computer.
  8. 08C-hess1★10 mostale—ai-builthobbyDesktop chess game implementing full standard rules, including castling, en passant, and pawn promotion, for local two-player matches.
  9. 09chess-cat0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal tool that displays chess board positions in a visual diagram.
  10. 10chessterm0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal game that lets users play chess matches interactively.
  11. 11tage0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTurn-based strategy game about empire warfare played in the terminal.
  12. 12hexgui0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application providing a graphical interface for playing and analyzing the abstract board game Hex against computer engines.
  13. 13TerminalQuest — Master the Terminal0★unknownliveindieTerminal training game that teaches keyboard shortcuts, filesystem navigation, and command-line skills through spy-themed missions.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.