[Kde-games-devel] Chess game for KDE4

Parker Coates parker.coates at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 19:11:34 CET 2009


On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:15, Arturo Silva wrote:
> Hello Miha,
>
> Thank you for working on a Knights successor, that was something of a
> hole that hasn't been filled yet.  ;)
>
> Quick question since you mentioned Tagua: have you heard of the Kaya
> board game suite?
>
> http://pcapriotti.github.com/kaya/
>
> Like Tagua, it might be another project attempting to do more than it
> has to, but it plays both chess and shogi.  It hasn't been updated for
> a while, but thought I'd point it out in case you find something
> useful for KChess (for the sake of convergence).  :)

Kaya and Tagua are the same project. :) Compare the screenshots. It
would seem Tagua was renamed.

> I'd honestly would want to see this called Knights.   Even though it's
> not quite the same, there shouldn't be anything stopping it from
> achieving feature parity in the future, no?  ;)

Although legally it's probably fair game, I think it's only fair to
get consent from the original Knights author. I'm sure Miha wouldn't
want to be called an identity thief. :)

Parker


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