NAME

       pentobi - computer opponent for the board game Blokus

SYNOPSIS

       pentobi [options] [file]

DESCRIPTION

       pentobi  is the command to invoke the program Pentobi, which is a graphical user interface
       and computer opponent to play the board game Blokus.

       The command can take the name of a game file to open at startup as an  optional  argument.
       The   game   file   is   expected   to  be  in  Pentobi's  SGF  format  as  documented  in
       doc/blksgf/Pentobi-SGF.html in the Pentobi source package.

OPTIONS

       --memory
              The amount of memory in bytes to be used by the search.   If  this  option  is  not
              used,  it depends on the amount of physical memory available on the system how much
              memory Pentobi will allocate (currently up to 768  MB).   If  the  memory  for  the
              search  is too low, the playing strength at higher playing levels will be impaired.
              This can be checked by running Pentobi with option --verbose in a game variant with
              a  high number of Monte-Carlo simulations per second (e.g. Duo).  If a message that
              the search tree was pruned occurs more than a few times during a  move  generation,
              the playing strength is likely to be affected.

       --threads
              The number of threads to use in the search. By default, up to 4 threads are used in
              the search depending on the number of hardware threads  supported  by  the  current
              system.  Using more threads will speed up the move generation but using a very high
              number of threads (e.g. more than 8) can degrade the  playing  strength  in  higher
              playing levels.

       --verbose
              Print   internal   information  about  the  move  generation  and  other  debugging
              information to standard error.

SEE ALSO

       pentobi-thumbnailer(6)

AUTHOR

       Markus Enzenberger <enz@users.sourceforge.net>