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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 phalanx'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.