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cli-chess

A highly customizable way to play chess in your terminal. Play online (via Lichess.org) and offline against the Fairy-Stockfish engine. All Lichess variants are supported.
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Downloads
Day
28
Week
323
Month
1.4K
Stars
290
Forks
13
Issues
9
Version
1.5.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
45
Adoption
31
Community
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,443
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,443
Stars
290
Stars per 1k downloads
200.97
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
46
Month daily avg
48
Momentum
—
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Momentum not reported for packages with < 5,000 monthly downloads — percentages are noisy at low volume.
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
GPL-3.0+
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
• Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
10 days ago
Total releases
28
Releases/year
5.3
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
4
Monthly downloads
1,443
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
21
 
Issue Burden
31.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
30.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 36

Python Versions

3.11
100.0% 36

Top Countries

1. US US
36
2. SG SG
6
3. HK HK
3
4. CA CA
1

Dependencies

3
4 optional dependencies

Used By

0
Not used by any tracked packages

Package Information

License
GPL-3.0+
First Release
January 24, 2021
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.5.0
Total Releases
28
Contributors
4
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Trevor Bayless
Python Versions
3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py3
Keywords
chess terminal fairy-stockfish stockfish lichess lichess.org cli san uci
Topics
chess fairy-stockfish lichess terminal uci cli command-line command-line-chess command-line-game lichess-api terminal-chess terminal-game tui tui-game
Tracking Since
January 14, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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