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.IX Title "POLYGLOT 6"
-.TH POLYGLOT 6 "2009-09-04" "" ""
+.TH POLYGLOT 6 "2009-09-05" "" ""
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polyglot perft [\-fen fen] [\-max\-depth depth]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
-.Sh "PolyGlot as adapter and book engine"
+.SS "PolyGlot as adapter and book engine"
.IX Subsection "PolyGlot as adapter and book engine"
PolyGlot is a \*(L"\s-1UCI\s0 adapter\*(R". It connects a \s-1GUI\s0 interface (such as
XBoard, Winboard, Arena or Chessbase) to a \s-1UCI\s0 chess engine.
.PP
\&\s-1NOTE:\s0 Not all options are exported, only those that make sense in the
given mode.
-.Sh "Book making utilities"
+.SS "Book making utilities"
.IX Subsection "Book making utilities"
PolyGlot supports the \*(L"PolyGlot opening book format\*(R". This is the
defacto standard non-proprietary opening book format. It is fully documented
utility info-book will attempt to count the isolated positions which
require a player to make a non-book move when a book move is available.
Due to the possibility of transpositions this is not a fool proof method.
-.Sh "Epd test mode"
+.SS "Epd test mode"
.IX Subsection "Epd test mode"
In epd test mode, PolyGlot will search positions in an epd file and
record the number of times the right best move was found. The
arguments specify when to stop the search in any given position.
-.Sh "Perft counts"
+.SS "Perft counts"
.IX Subsection "Perft counts"
A perft count is the number of legal move sequence in a given position
up to a given depth. PolyGlot can perform such perft counts. It
This is an alias for \-pg \*(L"Book=true\*(R" \-pg \*(L"BookFile=<value>\*(R".
.PP
When invoked as
-.Sh "polyglot make-book"
+.SS "polyglot make-book"
.IX Subsection "polyglot make-book"
PolyGlot supports the following options
.ie n .IP "\fB\-pgn\fR (default: ""book.pgn"")" 4
.PP
When invoked
as
-.Sh "polyglot merge-book"
+.SS "polyglot merge-book"
.IX Subsection "polyglot merge-book"
PolyGlot supports the following options
.IP "\fB\-in1\fR" 4
.PP
When invoked
as
-.Sh "polyglot dump-book"
+.SS "polyglot dump-book"
.IX Subsection "polyglot dump-book"
PolyGlot supports the following options
.IP "\fB\-bin\fR (default: book.bin)" 4
.PP
When invoked
as
-.Sh "polyglot info-book"
+.SS "polyglot info-book"
.IX Subsection "polyglot info-book"
PolyGlot supports the following options
.IP "\fB\-bin\fR (default: book.bin)" 4
Note that this takes a very long time.
.PP
When invoked as
-.Sh "polyglot epd-test"
+.SS "polyglot epd-test"
.IX Subsection "polyglot epd-test"
(possibly with a config file as first argument) PolyGlot supports
besides the generic options described above the following additional
Minimal search time when the search is stopped using \*(L"\-depth\-delta\*(R".
.PP
When invoked as
-.Sh "polyglot perft"
+.SS "polyglot perft"
.IX Subsection "polyglot perft"
PolyGlot supports the following
options
values. If you want to avoid this, or if you want use one of
the comment characters # or ; in option values (such as for NalimovPath),
enclose the value in quotes.
-.Sh "[PolyGlot] section"
+.SS "[PolyGlot] section"
.IX Subsection "[PolyGlot] section"
This section is used by PolyGlot only. The engine is unaware of these
options. The list of available options is detailed below.
.IX Item "BookRandom (default: true)"
Select moves according to their weights in the book. If false the move
with the highest weight is selected.
-.IP "\fBBookRandom\fR (default: true)" 4
-.IX Item "BookRandom (default: true)"
-Select moves according to their weights in the book. If false the move
-with the highest weight is selected.
+.IP "\fBBookLearn\fR (default: false)" 4
+.IX Item "BookLearn (default: false)"
+Store learning information in the book (which must be writable). Currently
+no engine actually uses this information.
.IP "\fBBookDepth\fR (default: 256)" 4
.IX Item "BookDepth (default: 256)"
Stop using the book after this number of moves.
.el .IP "\fBPersistDir\fR (default: \f(CW$HOME\fR/.polyglot on Linux; ``.\ePolyglot Settings'' on Windows)" 4
.IX Item "PersistDir (default: $HOME/.polyglot on Linux; .Polyglot Settings on Windows)"
The directory where the PersistFile is stored.
-.Sh "Work arounds"
+.SS "Work arounds"
.IX Subsection "Work arounds"
Work arounds are identical to options except that they should be used
only when necessary. Their purpose is to try to hide problems with
Old version of Winboard clear the engine output window at depth 1. With this
work around \s-1PG\s0 will send info lines at depth >=2. This may or may not improve
the display.
-.Sh "[Engine] section"
+.SS "[Engine] section"
.IX Subsection "[Engine] section"
This section contains engine \s-1UCI\s0 options. PolyGlot does not
understand them, but sends the information to the engine at startup
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