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