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lichess is open source and has an android app
Great, thanks for the suggestion. Apparently, Lichess has 'Over the board' feature that allows you to play with your friend offline, nice!
Various TUI modes were implemented in the ICS protocol for online chess. telnet freechess.org 5000 still works.
This is the coolest thing ever! it's a bit hard to play because black/white is not so easy to distinguish but you probably get used to it. (I lost cause I mixed up my knight with my opponents)
I remember using WinBoard (in Windows) or XBoard (in Linux) around 1998 or 1999 with to play chess on FICS after the novelty of the telnet experience wore off.
It's wild to me how many people writing native software opt to sandbox everything with docker these days
It’s just a distribution mechanism that users like. The page details other ways to install, including native methods. The container is at the top just because it will be the first thing many people will want to try.
It's wild to me how many people writing native software opt to sandbox everything with docker these days
It's wild to me how many people writing native software opt to sandbox everything with docker these days
As a user I love it, I use a mix of Windows, Linux and MacOS machines and when I see docker I know that it will "just werk" regardless of which one I'm using at the moment
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You can be clever and use half-blocks: ♘
What's a half-block and how do I use one?