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Knights is KDE's chess frontend. It supports playing local games against human players or against chess engines (XBoard and UIC)

as well as playing online games on FICS server:

Furthermore, it is possible to watch two different chess engines playing against each other:

Knights is not bound to any specific chess engine and talks to every engine supporting either the XBoard or the UIC protocols. For couple of well known open-source chess engines provided by linux distributions, knights has an auto-detection of installed engines which simplifies the initial configuration:

• CMake version 2.8.12 or higher
• ECM (extra cmake modules)
• KDE Frameworks (including the devel-package)
• KDE Games libraries (including the devel-package)
• Qt version 5.6 or higher (including the devel-package, libqt5-devel or similar)

To build and to install the project, execute

• cd <project_name_path>
• mkdir build
• cd build
• cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path_to_install_>
• make
• make install or sudo make install or su -c 'make install'

To uninstall the project, execute

• make uninstall or sudo make uninstall or su -c 'make uninstall'

UseKDE Bugtracking System to report any kind of issues with Knights.