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NAME

       sjaakii - xboard-compatible chess and chess-variant engine 'SjaakII'

SYNOPSIS

       sjaakii [-log|-newlog [filename]] [-variant name] [-no_user_variants] [-xboard|-uci|-uci|-ucci] [variant
       file]

DESCRIPTION

       sjaakii is a program that plays chess and chess variants.  It uses the xboard/winboard chess-engine
       protocol to communicate.  Apart from normal chess, SjaakII can play Seirawan Chess, Mongolian Shatar,
       Makruk (including variants ASEAN and Ai-Wok), Shatranj, Sittuyin (Burmese Chess), Crazy House Chess,
       Chessgi, Spartan Chess, Pocket Knight Chess, King-of-th-Hill, Knightmate, Amazon Chess, Chancellor Chess,
       Berolina Chess, Los Alamos Chess, Micro Chess, Capablanca Chess, Gothic Chess, Embassy Chess, Courier
       Chess, Grand Chess, Opulent Chess, Omega Chess, Shogi (including variants Mini Shogi, Sho Shogi and Tori
       Shogi) and Xiang-Qi. Other variants can be added through a configuration file.

       See xboard(6) for instructions about how to use sjaakii through xboard. To start up quickly, you just
       need the command: xboard -fcp sjaakii.

       Some of the variants SjaakII plays are only partially supported by XBoard, and can only be played whith
       the legality-testing function of the latter switched off.

OPTIONS

       -log [filename]
               Append all communication by SjaakII and XBoard to a logfile. If no filename is specified, the log
               is written to sjaakii.log.

       -newlog [filename]
               As -log, but the file is overwritten rather than added to.

       -variant name
               Normally, SjaakII starts with variant "normal" (regular chess), but it can be made to start with
               any other named variant with this option.

       -no_user_variants
               Do not read the default variant configuration file. You can still specify a file in the engine
               options.

       -xboard Start in xboard mode rather than the default mode.

       -uci    Start in UCI mode rather than the default mode.

       -usi    Start in USI mode rather than the default mode.

       -ucci   Start in UCCI mode rather than the default mode.

       variant file
               Read variant descriptions from the named file.

AVAILABILITY

       From http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html

SEE ALSO

       xboard(6)

STANDARDS

       WinBoard, xboard(6) interface ("Chess Engine Communication Protocol")

AUTHOR

       Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@dds.nl>.

       This manual page was based on the man page for Fairy-Max by H.G. Muller and was generated with
       pod2man(1).