debian man page for phalanx

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PHALANX(6)							   Games Manual 							PHALANX(6)

NAME
Phalanx - Chess playing program
SYNOPSIS
phalanx [options] [<moves> <minutes> [<increment in seconds>]] phalanx [options] [<seconds per move>] phalanx bench phalanx bcreate [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the phalanx program. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. phalanx is a chess playing program. It is partially xboard compatible. Under xboard, it can play games, force & undo moves, and show thinking. In this version, you cannot set positions with xboard. It is also possible to run phalanx without xboard. Do phalanx -? to get a list of command line options. One important command of pha- lanx's ASCII interface is help. phalanx uses (traditional) 10x12 board implementation. There are three often used board implementations: "8x8" (GNU Chess), "bitboard" (Crafty), and "10x12" (Nimzo, Phalanx). In short, "10x12" is easy to implement and the code is small (==fast on PC). Opening book is small, simple, hand-written.
OPTIONS
-t <transposition table size in kilobytes> -f <fixed search time in seconds> -x <+/-> xboard mode on/off default: on -p <+/-> permanent brain on/off default: off -s <+/-> show thinking on/off default: off -c <+/-> cpu time default: off -o <+/-> polling input default: on -b <+/-> opening book default: on -r <resign value in centipawns> default: 0 (no resigning) -e <easy level 0...100> default: 0 (best play) -l <+/-> learning on/off default: on -v print version and exit -P <primary book directory> -S <secondary book directory> -L <learning file directory> -g <log file name>
EXAMPLES
phalanx -c+ -s+ -o - -x- -f 60 -t4000 xboard -fcp "phalanx -l+ -r800"
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/phalanx, xboard(6)
AUTHOR
Phalanx was written by Dusan Dobes <dobes@math.muni.cz>. This manual page was written by Stephen Stafford <bagpuss@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux project, but may be used by others. It was written with the assistance of help2man(1) and then edited slightly to clean it up. Phalanx XXII May 2001 PHALANX(6)
Related Man Pages
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gnushogi(6) - debian
phalanx(6) - debian
polyglot(6) - debian
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