phalanx6
Chess playing program
Usage
phalanx [options]
[<moves>
<minutes>
[<increment
in
seconds>]]
phalanx [options]
[<seconds
per
move>]
phalanx bench
phalanx bcreate
[options]
Overview
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
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default: 0 (no resigning) |
|---|---|
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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>
Examples
phalanx -c+ -s+ -o - -x- -f 60 -t4000
xboard -fcp "phalanx -l+ -r800"
Releases
15 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 3 times.
-b since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-c since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-l since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-o since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-p since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-s since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-v since Debian 3.0 (Woody);
-x since Debian 3.0 (Woody).