X-Git-Url: http://winboard.nl/cgi-bin?a=blobdiff_plain;f=fmax.6.pod;h=e495219d9aef81b041bfdad274d30e55c3c3ed26;hb=518211a4310898171d8bb4e0a865f97e9cbda28a;hp=531916944b28c8e773c69709704b0687c4dc880b;hpb=01c98981a223a4534f0fc1e7fceefd522a3b74db;p=fairymax.git diff --git a/fmax.6.pod b/fmax.6.pod index 5319169..e495219 100644 --- a/fmax.6.pod +++ b/fmax.6.pod @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ B is a program that plays chess and chess variants. It uses the xboard/winboard chess-engine protocol to communicate. Apart from 'regular' chess (also known as the Mad-Queen variant), it can play Capablanca chess, gothic chess, knightmate, cylinder chess, -berolina chess, superchess and courier chess. +berolina chess, superchess, makruk (Thai chess) and courier chess. Fairy-Max can be easily configured by the user to play other variants as well, by modifying the ini file. This ini file describes the rules of movement @@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ to get correct display of the elephant and general pieces in shatranj. Note that to be able to play the chess variants, you will need xboard 4.3.14 or later. +Fairymax supports multi-PV mode: by specifying a non-zero multi-PV margin in the +Options -> Engine-Settings dialog of XBoard, Fairy-Max will not only print the +principal variation for the best move, but also for every move that approaches +the score of this best move to within the set margin. +(If it does not find the best move on the first try, this might lead to printing +of a few extra lines below the threshold.) + The fmax.ini file from which Fairy-Max by default takes the piece and game definitions is a self-documenting text file, which contains instructions for how to define new pieces and chess variants.