polyglot-chess - Man Page
is a chess engine protocol adaptor. It connects a UCI protocol engine to xboard frontend.
Synopsis
polyglot-chess <INI files>
Description
This manual page documents the polyglot-chess command.
polyglot-chess acts as an xboard engine. There should be no difference with a normal chess program as far as the interface (e.g. scid, knights, xboard) is concerned.
To use PolyGlot with XBoard, you would type something like this:
> xboard -fd 'polyglot-chess_dir' -fcp 'polyglot engine.ini'
Quotes are important when there is a space in the argument.
Options
<INI file>
PolyGlot is invoked using "polyglot-chess <INI file>". Note that PolyGlot will look for the INI file in the current directory. So the user is encuraged to make a .polyglot-chess directory in his home and put the <INI files> there. If no <INI file> is given, "polyglot-chess.ini" is selected.
See Also
/usr/share/doc/polyglot-chess,
More information is included in dhe upstream readmes and the examples.
Author
polyglot-chess was written by Fabien Letouzey, <fabien_letouzey@hotmail.com>.
The official distribution web site is Leo Dijksman's
WBEC Ridderkerk: http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ This is where you should be looking for PolyGlot updates in the future. Go to the download section, there is a link to polyglot-chess on the main page.
This manual page was written by Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).