afk-chess

Correspondence chess against a friend, one move at a time — a game for the afk-arcade to play while your AI agent finishes the job.

npx afk-chess

The rules

Full FIDE chess: castling, en passant, promotion, checkmate, stalemate, fifty-move rule, threefold repetition, insufficient material. Nothing simplified.

There is no clock. Make your move, close the terminal, come back whenever — the match waits for you.

Making a move

Type a move in from+to form, like e2e4. Promoting adds the piece letter: e7e8q promotes to a queen.

| command | does | |---|---| | resign | forfeit the match | | draw | offer a draw | | accept | accept your opponent's draw offer |

A typo never reaches the network — it's checked against the legal moves first, so it costs nothing.

Sign in

afk-chess needs a GitHub sign-in the first time you run it, so a match can find you by handle and follow you between terminals. Follow the device-code prompt once; after that you're remembered — then pick a friend from the list to start a match.

MIT