KNights is a chess game. As a player, your goal is to defeat your opponent by checkmating their king.

Awọn ẹya:

• 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