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Chess board program (source files)

knights_source-22.04.0-1-source

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

Name
knights_source
Repository
HaikuPorts
Repository Source
haikuports_x86_64
Version
22.04.0-1
Download Size
3.5 MB
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