knights

Chess game

KNights is a chess game, featuring:

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
use of Jovie, the KDE text-to-speak program, to speak opponent’s moves
ability to control the program via a D-Bus interface

Versions: 24.12.1
Website: https://apps.kde.org/knights/
Licenses: GPL 2+
Package source: gnu/packages/kde-games.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install the latest version of knights as follows:

guix install knights

Or install a particular version:

guix install knights@24.12.1

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.

Badge code

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Example HTML:

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