phalanx — Chess playing program
Synopsis
phalanx [options] [<moves> <minutes> [<increment in seconds>]]phalanx [options] [<seconds per move>]
phalanx bench
phalanx bcreate [options]
Description
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.
Options
-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
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-P <primary book directory>
- -S <secondary book directory>
- -L <learning file directory>
- -g <log file name>
- -S <secondary book directory>
Examples
xboard -fcp "phalanx -l+ -r800"