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knights 24.05.2

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

Installation

Install knights 24.05.2 as follows:

guix install knights@24.05.2

Or install the latest version:

guix install knights

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.