hoichess
Section: Games (6)
Updated: 2023-01-22
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NAME
hoichess - xboard compatible chess engine
hoixiangqi - xiangqi engine
SYNOPSIS
hoichess [options]
hoixiangqi [options]
DESCRIPTION
hoichess is a chess playing program. It implements major parts of the
xboard/winboard chess engine protocol.
hoichess uses many of the standard techniques found in modern chess programs,
like rotated bitboards, principal variation search, quiescence search,
transposition table and iterative deepening.
See xboard(6) for instructions about how to use hoichess through xboard. To
start up quickly, you just need the command: xboard -fcp hoichess.
hoixiangqi is a xiangqi (``Chinese chess'') playing program. Recent versions
of xboard also support xiangqi: xboard -fcp hoixiangqi.
hoichess and hoixiangqi are built from the same code base, so nearly
all commands and options, as well as the text based user interface, are the
same for both programs.
If run hoichess or hoixiangqi at the command line, the help command
gives you a brief summary of available commands.
At program start, a default startup file is read. This file is called
hoichess.rc or hoixiangqi.rc, respectively. It is searched for in the
following directories, in order: current directory, $HOME/.hoichess,
$USERPROFILE/.hoichess (only on Windows), DATADIR.
Only the first found file is read.
The DATADIR is installation dependent, commonly /usr/share/games/hoichess.
OPTIONS
- -h, --help
-
Display usage information.
- -V, --version
-
Display version information.
- -v, --verbose[=n]
-
Increase verbosity. Multiple -v options may be given. --verbose=n sets
verbosity level n.
- -d, --debug[=n]
-
Increase debug level. Multiple -d options may be given. --debug=n sets
debug level n.
- -x, --xboard[=arg]
-
Start in xboard compatible mode. This turns off the input prompt and alters
the output format to meet the requirements of the xboard protocol. Normally,
this option should not be necessary because hoichess automatically detects
when it is started under xboard.
The optional argument can be one of:
-
- off
-
Force non-xboard mode.
- on
-
Force xboard mode.
-
- --source filename
-
Before accepting input from stdin, first read commands (and probably moves)
from filename. Can be given multiple times.
- --initcmd command
-
Execute command at startup. The command is executed before reading script
files given by the --source option. Can be given multiple times.
- --norc
-
Do not read default startup file hoichess.rc or hoixiangqi.rc.
- --color arg
-
Control usage of ANSI color control sequences, e.g. when displaying the
chess board.
arg can be one of:
-
- off
-
Never use ANSI color sequences.
- on
-
Always use ANSI color sequences.
- auto
-
Automatically use ANSI color sequences when stdout is a terminal.
-
On Unix platforms, the default is auto. On Windows platforms, the default
is off, because the Windows terminal is normally not ANSI capable.
SEE ALSO
http://www.hoicher.de/hoichess
xboard(6)
AUTHOR
hoichess was written by Holger Ruckdeschel <holger@hoicher.de>.
This manual page was generated with pod2man(1).
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- SEE ALSO
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- AUTHOR
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