X-Git-Url: http://winboard.nl/cgi-bin?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manual%2Fhtml_node%2FChess-engine-options.html;h=7b3bbbd455080beb1536eacc019f4f6e57fc970d;hb=10173187bb807a7194df200fef7a0e5efe47688f;hp=70d0f61d3fb88ea9ba6d264b1222132b74abd759;hpb=0f848da7556dd6eadf0a33029d2aade7676caa37;p=xboard.git diff --git a/manual/html_node/Chess-engine-options.html b/manual/html_node/Chess-engine-options.html index 70d0f61..7b3bbbd 100644 --- a/manual/html_node/Chess-engine-options.html +++ b/manual/html_node/Chess-engine-options.html @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Chess engine options - XBoard - + @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
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@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ by the new option Hide Thinking. See Op it makes the engine send it despite the setting of this option.)
-ponder/-xponder or -ponderNextMove true/false
Sets the Ponder Next Move menu option. See Options Menu. Default: true.
-smpCores number
Specifies the maximum number of CPUs an SMP engine is allowed to use. -Only works for engines that support the WinBoard-protocol cores feature. +Only works for engines that support the XBoard/WinBoard-protocol cores feature.
-mg or -matchGames n
Automatically runs an n-game match between two chess engines, with alternating colors. If the loadGameFile or loadPositionFile option is set, @@ -182,11 +182,11 @@ that in favor of white, even when the engine plays black. Important when XBoard uses the score for adjudications, or in PGN reporting.
-niceEngines priority
This option allows you to lower the priority of the engine processes, so that the generally insatiable hunger for CPU time of chess engines does not interfere so much -with smooth operation of WinBoard (or the rest of your system). +with smooth operation of XBoard (or the rest of your system). Negative values could increase the engine priority, which is not recommended.
-firstOptions string
-secondOptions string
The given string is a comma-separated list of (option name=option value) pairs, like the following example: "style=Karpov,blunder rate=0". -If the options announced by the engine at startup through the feature commands of WinBoard protocol +If an option announced by the engine at startup through the feature commands of the XBoard/WinBoard protocol matches one of the option names (i.e. "style" or "blunder rate"), it would be set to the given value (i.e. "Karpov" or 0) through a corresponding option command to the engine. @@ -198,8 +198,8 @@ variant fischerandom, to make them at least understand the opening position, through setting the string to "KQkq -". (Note you also have to give the e.p. field!) Other possible applications are to provide work-arounds for engines that want to see castling and e.p. fields in variants that do not have castling or e.p. -(shatranj, courier, xiangqi, shogi) so that WinBoard would normally omit them -(string = "- -"), or to add variant-specific fields that are not yet supported by WinBoard +(shatranj, courier, xiangqi, shogi) so that XBoard would normally omit them +(string = "- -"), or to add variant-specific fields that are not yet supported by XBoard (e.g. to indicate the number of checks in 3check).