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The BlacKNight Chess codebase is undergoing a major rewrite. The first project started as an excercise to understand the MVC pattern. Either I didn't understand it, or that pattern doesn't really fit in a chess game. The resulting code was a mess.
As a consequence, I decided to rewrite most of the code from scratch, letting alone the MVC pattern and focusing on the game.
The resulting code, not yet finished nor released, is much cleaner and more readable.
I plan the first release of BlacKNight Chess 2 when it will have at least the features already present in the last release of version 1 (= the last alpha release). Timeline? None, I'll release when it will be time to do so. Maybe a few weeks, maybe a few years.... read more

BlacKNight Chess is a chess game written in Java; it supports email play and one of its goals is to allow end users to plug in different thinking engines to play against. Release alpha-20030205 includes connected and disconnected network play, although it does not include any thinking engine yet. Try it out! You can download it from http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/blacknightchess