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+Knights - A chess interface (GUI) for the Trinity Desktop Environment
+
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+Knights is a graphical chess interface designed to work with TDE.
+It's designed to be both friendly to new chess players and
+functional for Grand Masters. Knights is called a chess "interface"
+because it does not come with it's own computer players. There are
+several computer players ( Chess Engines ) already. Unfortunatly, most
+chess engines do not include fully featured GUIs. Instead, they rely on
+other programs ( like Knights ) to fill the gap.
+
+
+## What Chess Engines can work with Knights?
+
+Knights should support any engine which uses the XBoard protocol
+developed by Tim Mann. Knights will also offer it's own protocol for
+future use. To date, the following chess engines have been confirmed
+to work with. If you know of another, please let we know so we can
+update this list.
+
+- GNUChess v4.0 patchlevel 80
+- GNUChess v5.02
+- Crafty v18.09
+- Crafty v18.10
+- KnightCap v3.3
+- Sjeng v10.0
+- BabyChess
+
+
+## List of Knights' key features:
+
+* Play against yourself, against computer opponents,
+  or against others over the Internet.
+* Customize your board and pieces with over 30 different themes,
+  or make your own!
+* Audio cues help alert you to important events.
+* Novice players can preview potential moves.
+* Save your unfinished matches and play them again later.
+
+.
+
+Contributing
+--------------
+
+If you wish to contribute to knights (TDE), you might do so:
+
+- TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) collaboration tool.
+  https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea
+
+- TDE Weblate Translation Workspace (TWTW) collaboration tool.
+  https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate
+
+
+Translations status
+---------------------
+
+### messages
+[![Translations status](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/widgets/applications/-/knights/multi-auto.svg
+"Engage in translating")](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/projects/applications/knights/)
+
+### desktop files
+[![Translations status](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/widgets/applications/-/knights-knightsdesktop/multi-auto.svg
+"Engage in translating")](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/projects/applications/knights-knightsdesktop/)
+
+### mime-types
+[![Translations status](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/widgets/applications/-/knights-pgn-mimetype/multi-auto.svg
+"Engage in translating")](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/projects/applications/knights-pgn-mimetype/)