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Knights - A chess interface for the Trinity Desktop Environment
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FOR INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS, SEE THE "INSTALL" FILE
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- What Is Knights?
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Knights is a graphical chess interface designed to work with TDE. Knights
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is called a chess 'interface' because it does not come with it's own computer
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players. There are several very good computer players ( Chess Engines )
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already. Unfortunatly, most chess engines do not include fully featured GUIs.
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Instead, they rely on other programs ( like Knights ) to fill the gap.
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- How can I learn more about Knights?
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If you're interested in learning more, you should visit our project's website
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at http://knights.sourceforge.net
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- What Chess Engines work with Knights?
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Knights should support any engine which uses the XBoard protocol developed by
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Tim Mann. Knights will also offer it's own protocol for future use. To date,
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the following chess engines have been confirmed to work with Knights. If you
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know of another, please let me know so I can update this list.
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- GNUChess v4.0 patchlevel 80
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- GNUChess v5.02
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- Crafty v18.09
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- Crafty v18.10
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- KnightCap v3.3
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- Sjeng v10.0
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- BabyChess
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- What can I do to help Knights?
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Knights can always use help in a number of areas. The best way to get started
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would be to express your interests on the knights-devel mailing list. You can
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sign up from here:
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http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31461
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Currently, we're very interested in talking to a graphics artist about
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designing some new themes, and we would like to talk to some advanced
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chess players about helping to develop the tutorials.
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