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Introducing KChess
In KDE3, there was a great chess board program called Knights that could talk to Gnuchess, Crafty or almost any other chess engine with the XBoard protocol. Now, 2 years into KDE SC 4, there’s still no...
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Castling and en-passant moves in KChess
I finally completed the code reqiured for these special move rules in KChess. Next up in line: Pawn promotions, and two-player hotseat mode.
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KChess first beta released
I decided to release the first test version of KChess to the public. http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KChess?content=122046 =-=-=-=-= Powered by Blogilo
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Knights in the playground
Knights, the KDE 4 chess board, is now in KDE playground. The code part is pretty much ready to be reviewed and released, however the default theme is only in the PNG format, while KDE’s themes are...
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Knights and FICS
As of yesterday, Knights 2.0 is able to connect to freechess.org and play a complete game there. I committed to playground today, feel free to compile it from there. I wasn’t able to test it...
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Knights 2.1
Today I decided to release the next version of Knights 2, the KDE4 port/rewrite of Troy Corbin’s great chess program. For this release I have to thank Dave Kaye, who not only added, fixed and improved...
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Knights in shining armor
Since there was some negative commentary about the looks of Knights in my previous post, I took the popular advice and used Plasma’s clock in Knights. And you were correct: it looks much more pleasing...
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Last Month in Knights
It’s almost a full month since the 2.2 release, and I’m proud to say there are some new features in your future favourite chess program. The first thing I did was to add support for the different...
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