Phalanx - Chess playing program

       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.

Phalanx XXII                                        May 2001                                          PHALANX(6)

       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.

       phalanx -c+ -s+ -o - -x--f 60 -t4000

       xboard -fcp "phalanx -l+ -r800"

       Phalanx - Chess playing program

-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>

       /usr/share/doc/phalanx, xboard(6)

phalanx [options] [<moves><minutes> [<incrementinseconds>]]
       phalanx [options] [<secondspermove>]
       phalanxbenchphalanxbcreate [options]