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

       --memory
              The amount of memory in bytes to be used by the search.  If this option is not used, it depends on
              the amount of physical memory available on the  system  how  much  memory  Pentobi  will  allocate
              (currently up to 768 MB).  If the memory for the search is too low, the playing strength at higher
              playing  levels will be impaired.  This can be checked by running Pentobi with option --verbose in
              a game variant with a high number of Monte-Carlo simulations per second (e.g. Duo).  If a  message
              that the search tree was pruned occurs more than a few times during a move generation, the playing
              strength is likely to be affected.

       --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>

Pentobi 7.2                                        2012-12-02                                         PENTOBI(6)