ASCII Chessboard, No HTML Required
📆 2026-05-04 11:33
Following up on my previous post about gemtext tables:
Gemtext Tables, No HTML Required
Sometimes, when I have absolutely nothing to do, I play with ASCII characters in vim. Today I made an ASCII chess board with black and white chess pieces. I'm pretty sure I'm not the first one to make an ascii chessboard and I won't be the last. I thought it looks pretty nice so I wanted to share it on my blog.
Depending on the monospace font you have this might look good or not :-)
I did not really have a clever idea for alternating black and white squares. I was thinking about bold borders for black squares and thin borders for white squares but it didn't look good. Do you have a better idea for an ASCII chess board ?