NAME

       eboard - a graphical chess board

SYNOPSIS

       eboard [-log] [-debug] [-dgtport device ]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page briefly describes the eboard command.

       eboard  is  a  graphical chess board. It acts as an interface to chess engines (like GNU Chess, Sjeng and
       Crafty) and Internet Chess Servers (ICS) like FICS (http://www.freechess.org), and works as a browser for
       chess  games  saved as PGN (Portable Game Notation) files.  eboard itself is not a chess engine: it won't
       play games, it will just act as a graphical interface between programs that play games like GNU chess (or
       ICS servers) and the end-user.

       To  move pieces click on the source square and then click to destination square. Optionally, you may drag
       the piece from the source to the destination square (you won't see the  piece  being  dragged).  To  drop
       pieces  on  crazyhouse and bughouse variants (ICS-only) right-click the destination square and select the
       piece to drop from the popup menu.

       For help with ICS commands consult the server (most of them have online help and help channels).

       For help setting up associated programs (chess engines, timestamping, etc.)   see  the  documentation  in
       /usr/share/doc/eboard   or  visit  the  eboard  web  site  at  https://github.com/fbergo/eboard.  If  the
       documentation is not installed in your system, you can find it in the source distribution, available from
       the web site.

OPTIONS

       -log   Log network communications to "~/LOG.eboard". Communications held in password mode are not logged.

       -debug Print miscellaneous debug info to "~/DEBUG.eboard".

       -dgtport device
              Use the DGT board connected to the given device.

AUTHORS

       eboard was developed by Felipe Bergo. This manual page was written by Felipe Bergo <fbergo@gmail.com> and
       Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>.

WEBSITE

       https://github.com/fbergo/eboard

                                                  March 7, 2016                                        EBOARD(6)