Provided by: pentobi_14.1-1_amd64 
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
--maxlevel
Set the maximum playing level. Reducing this value reduces the amount of memory used by the
search, which can be useful to run Pentobi on systems that have low memory or are too slow to use
the highest levels. By default, Pentobi currently allocates up to 2 GB (but not more than a
quarter of the physical memory available on the system). Reducing the maximum level to 8
currently reduces this amount by a factor of 3 to 4 and lower maximum levels even more.
-h, --help
Display help and exit.
--nobook
Do not use opening books.
--nodelay
Do not delay fast computer moves. By default, the computer player adds a small delay if the move
generation took less than a second to make it easier for the human to follow the game if the
computer plays several moves in a row.
--seed Set the seed for the random generator. Using a fixed seed makes the move generation deterministic
if no multi-threading is used (see option --threads).
--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>