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0001 # Knights 0002 0003 Knights is KDE's chess frontend. It supports playing local games against human players or against chess engines (XBoard and UIC) 0004 [![](https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/knights/knights_main.png "Main Window - Human vs. Engine")](https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/knights/knights_main.png) 0005 0006 as well as playing online games on FICS server: 0007 [![](https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/knights/knights_seek_graph.png "Seek Graph")](https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/knights/knights_seek_graph.png) 0008 0009 Furthermore, it is possible to watch two different chess engines playing against each other: 0010 [![](https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/knights/knights_main_2.png "Main Window - Engine vs. Engine")](https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/knights/knights_main_2.png) 0011 0012 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: 0013 [![](https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/knights/knights_auto_detect_engines.png "Auto Detection of Chess Engines")](https://cdn.kde.org/screenshots/knights/knights_auto_detect_engines.png) 0014 0015 0016 # Required Packages 0017 0018 * CMake version 2.8.12 or higher 0019 * ECM (extra cmake modules) 0020 * KDE Frameworks (including the devel-package) 0021 * KDE Games libraries (including the devel-package) 0022 * Qt version 5.6 or higher (including the devel-package, libqt5-devel or similar) 0023 0024 0025 # How To Build Knights 0026 0027 To build and to install the project, execute 0028 0029 * cd <project_name_path> 0030 * mkdir build 0031 * cd build 0032 * cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path_to_install_> 0033 * make 0034 * make install or sudo make install or su -c 'make install' 0035 0036 To uninstall the project, execute 0037 * make uninstall or sudo make uninstall or su -c 'make uninstall' 0038 0039 0040 # Bug Reports and Wishes 0041 Use [KDE Bugtracking System](https://bugs.kde.org/) to report any kind of issues with Knights.