Knights

KNights is a chess game. As a player, your goal is to defeat your opponent by checkmating their king.

Features:

• Local play between two players on the same computer

• Play against any computer program that supports the XBoard protocol

• Play on the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS)

• Watching two computer engines play against each other

• Support for legal move checking

• Markers for possible moves, opponent’s last move and sources of check

• Board borders and site notations

• Complete time control, with Plasma-styled clocks

• Several themes, with the possibility of downloading new ones from within the program

• Animated moves (configurable)

• Views for playing on a chess server, including a seek graph, text console, and chat widget

• Option to undo and redo moves

• Graphic interface for making and receiving offers from remote players

• Support for the UCI protocol (used by Stockfish, Chessbase, and many others)

• Support for saving and loading Portable game notation (PGN) files

• Speak opponent’s moves

• Ability to control the program via a D-Bus interface