KDE wallpaper in Linux

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MikeGL
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KDE wallpaper in Linux

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Was trying some flavors of Desktop Environment in Linux OS and checked what KDE has to offer. Was curious when I stumbled upon a wallpaper named 'Chess'.

Graphics of the wallpaper was amazing, offering different versions of the
same wallpaper for 1280x1024 , 1600x1200 , 1920x1200 screen settings.

Unfortunately, the position is illegal because the other side had just promoted his pawn, while his K is on check. Either that, or the starting board was setup incorrectly with h1 being black instead of a white square.


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edit: start position was setup correctly with h1 square as white, it seems. So the move e8(Q)+ of white is illegal since his own Ka4 is on check.
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Re: KDE wallpaper in Linux

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Link to this wallpaper, please..
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Re: KDE wallpaper in Linux

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MikeGL wrote: Unfortunately, the position is illegal because the other side had just promoted his pawn, while his K is on check. Either that, or the starting board was setup incorrectly with h1 being black instead of a white square.
I think the latter is the more likely. It's, unfortunately, not uncommon for movies, etc., to not have followed the light-on-the-right rule of board orientation.
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Re: KDE wallpaper in Linux

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Dariusz wrote:Link to this wallpaper, please..
http://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/X11/KDE/stable/4.14.3/src/
Then download kdeartwork-4.14.3.tar.xz

Not sure if this file can be uncompressed inside Windows to make use of those images, I tried but failed. Only uncompressed this successfully inside Linux OS (Ubuntu/Mint).

zenpawn wrote:I think the latter is the more likely.
That's what I felt too, the e8(Q)+ is actually a5 pawn of white.
That unmoved Bc8 beside blacks King of black looks like a pawn at first glance.
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Re: KDE wallpaper in Linux

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Thx, nice wallpaper :-)

Below link witch zip-pack.
http://www95.zippyshare.com/v/sTqbopkh/file.html
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