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Knights

Knights aims to be the ultimate chess resource on your computer. Written for the K Desktop Environment, it's designed to be both friendly to new chess players and functional for Grand Masters. It supports play against many opponents, including yourself, computer opponents, live Internet players, and against friends via email. It also sports highly customizable graphics and sound.

Tags Games/Entertainment Turn Based Strategy Desktop Environment KDE
Licenses GPL
Operating Systems POSIX
Implementation C++

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Changes: This version introduced chess via email, experimental support for Crazyhouse and Suicide variants, and a refined GUI and tab management system, and fixed several critical bugs. This beta version is untranslated.

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  •  22 May 2003 03:42
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Changes: This version introduces a powerful new printing system, better support for PGN games, and fixes a number of critical bugs.

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  •  20 Jan 2003 13:43
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Changes: This release introduces massive speed improvements, a new match dialog, an online sought games graph, a new "dynamic tabs" interface, Italian and Finnish translations, and a lot more.

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  •  23 Jun 2002 19:29
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Changes: This has been ported to KDE 3, improves graphics, adds mouse wheel support, adds printing, fixes a plethora of bugs, and includes translations in French, German, and Estonian. There are over 50 documented changes.

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  •  06 Feb 2002 18:19
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Changes: A fix for a critical bug which made it impossible to capture another chessman.

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