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EBOARD(6)							   Games Manual 							 EBOARD(6)

NAME

       eboard - a graphical chess board

SYNOPSIS

       eboard [-log] [-debug] [-dgtport device ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page briefly describes the eboard command.

       eboard  is  a graphical chess board. It acts as an interface to chess engines (like GNU Chess, Sjeng and Crafty) and Internet Chess Servers
       (ICS) like FICS (http://www.freechess.org), and works as a browser for chess games saved as PGN (Portable  Game	Notation)  files.   eboard
       itself  is  not	a  chess  engine: it won't play games, it will just act as a graphical interface between programs that play games like GNU
       chess (or ICS servers) and the end-user.

       To move pieces click on the source square and then click to destination square. Optionally, you may drag the piece from the source  to  the
       destination  square  (you won't see the piece being dragged). To drop pieces on crazyhouse and bughouse variants (ICS-only) right-click the
       destination square and select the piece to drop from the popup menu.

       For help with ICS commands consult the server (most of them have online help and help channels).

       For help setting up associated programs (chess engines, timestamping, etc.)  see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/eboard  or	visit  the
       eboard  web site at http://eboard.sourceforge.net. If the documentation is not installed in your system, you can find it in the source dis-
       tribution, available from the web site.

OPTIONS

       -log   Log network communications to "~/LOG.eboard". Communications held in password mode are not logged.

       -debug Print miscellaneous debug info to "~/DEBUG.eboard".

       -dgtport device
	      Use the DGT board connected to the given device.

AUTHORS

       eboard is being developed by Felipe Bergo. This manual page was	written  by  Felipe  Bergo  <bergo@seul.org>  and  Daniel  Burrows  <dbur-
       rows@debian.org>.

WEBSITE

       http://eboard.sourceforge.net

								 January 22, 2007							 EBOARD(6)

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TOURNEY-MANAGER(6)						     games(6)							TOURNEY-MANAGER(6)

NAME

       tourney-manager - perl interface to run chess engine tourneys

SYNOPSIS

       tourney-manager configfiles

DESCRIPTION

       tourney-manager helps you to run chess engine tournaments easyly.

       Running Tournaments:

       1. Create a directory in which the tourneymanager can put all his temporary files, configuration and results.

       2.  Then  create the configuration files. Look at /usr/share/doc/tourney-manager/example.conf which is supplied along with the tourney man-
       ager. Copy this to the tourney directory,it is rather well commented.

       More tuning has to be done to specify non standard chess engines. The example-engine.conf has some standard engines set. The settings  have
       to be tuned according your system.

       Example for an UCI engine:

       example-engines.conf:

       engine = Glaurung2 bin	  = /home/username/chess/tourney/glau.sh

       glau.sh:

       #!/bin/bash /usr/games/polyglot /home/username/chess/tourney/glaurung.ini

       glaurung.ini:

       [PolyGlot]

       EngineDir = .  EngineCommand = /usr/games/glaurung

       Log = false LogFile = glaurung.log

       Resign = true ResignScore = 600

       [Engine]

       Hash = 64 OwnBook = false Threads = 1

       3.  Start  the  tourney	manager  tourney-manager  The tourney manager uses an interactive command shell. To start up quickly,the following
       sequence of commands should be enough:

	       create
	       print
	       start

	  Help about commands is available by 'help' and 'help <command>'.

OPTIONS

       This program just takes the configfile as an option.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/tourney-manager/example.conf, and /usr/share/doc/tourney-manager/example-engines.conf.

AUTHOR

       tourney-manager was written by Holger Ruckdeschel <holger@hoicher.de>.

       This manual page was written by Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Oliver Korff							   July 12, 2006						TOURNEY-MANAGER(6)
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