NAME

       pentobi - computer opponent for the board game Blokus

SYNOPSIS

       pentobi [--maxlevel n] [--mobile] [--nobook] [--nodelay] [--seed n] [--threads n]
               [--verbose] [file.blksgf]

       pentobi -h | --help

       pentobi -v | --version

DESCRIPTION

       pentobi is the command to invoke the program Pentobi, which is a graphical user interface
       and computer opponent for 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 Pentobi-SGF.md in
       the Pentobi source package.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
           Display help and exit.

       --maxlevel n
           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.

       --mobile
           Use a window layout optimized for smartphones and apply some user interface changes
           that assume that a touchscreen is the main input device. If this option is not used,
           the default layout depends on the platform. Using this option also changes the default
           style for GUI elements of QQuickControls 2 to Default if the style is not explicitly
           set with option -style.

       --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 n
           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 n
           The number of threads to use in the search. By default, up to 8 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.

STANDARD QT OPTIONS

       Additionally, any options supported by Qt applications can be used, such as:

       -display d
           Switches displays on X11.

       -geometry g
           Window geometry using the X11 syntax.

       -style s
           Set the style for the GUI elements of QQuickControls.

       -v, --version
           Display version and exit.

SEE ALSO

       pentobi-thumbnailer