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About
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
Additional information
- Developer
- KDE
- License
- GPL-2.0+
- Category
- Board & Cards
- Size
- 81.2 MB
- Homepage
- https://apps.kde.org/knights
- Available via
- Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store (stable build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, Slackware, Gentoo
- Catalog data as of
- 9/3/2026 (dataset snapshot date — per-app update dates aren't tracked yet)