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saulpw
on Dec 6, 2023
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A chess TUI implementation
You can be clever and use half-blocks: ♘
shmageggy
on Dec 6, 2023
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What's a half-block and how do I use one?
saulpw
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Sorry, that didn't render. They're U+258C and U+2590. So you put them on either side and each square is rendered across 3 cells, and the 2 outer cells are half-blocks shared with the adjacent squares.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements
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