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Tmux Chess

by surganov on 11/12/15, 3:10 PM with 11 comments

• by dmerrick on 11/13/15, 9:54 PM

  This was terribly disappointing to me. It's basically just showcasing that tmux can be an 8x8 grid of panes.

  What needs to be done is building a project that can "move" pieces from one square to another, according to the rules of chess.

  At the very least, use Unicode chess pieces[1] instead of typing "black pawn" everywhere.

  [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode

• by falconed on 11/14/15, 2:07 AM

  Was there anything special about the tmux config used? What keybindings were used to move between panes? Seemed like snappier movement than you'd get with the defaults, unless maybe the video was sped up.

• by digi_owl on 11/14/15, 7:50 AM

  No matter how fancy we make our interfaces, the power tools seems to be a grid of command lines.

• by throw123456 on 11/13/15, 9:37 PM

  what is the point of this?

• by SeoxyS on 11/13/15, 10:23 PM

  Would probably be a lot easier in Google Sheets with cut and paste.