X-Git-Url: http://winboard.nl/cgi-bin?p=polyglot.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=polyglot.man;fp=polyglot.man;h=ded75ffdeab685dfe912f13ce06b18e673b71b9f;hp=39f08b8d484cb6e140b7c25edcfeb44d074ed74b;hb=bb6c47f77f59067c358579a71cefa1ae65180a30;hpb=cd81270f2b1723e0798f4d6dcaee134f0b4aca7f diff --git a/polyglot.man b/polyglot.man index 39f08b8..ded75ff 100644 --- a/polyglot.man +++ b/polyglot.man @@ -1,15 +1,7 @@ -.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.16 (Pod::Simple 3.05) +.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.1801 (Pod::Simple 3.05) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== -.de Sh \" Subsection heading -.br -.if t .Sp -.ne 5 -.PP -\fB\\$1\fR -.PP -.. .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp @@ -53,7 +45,7 @@ .el .ds Aq ' .\" .\" If the F register is turned on, we'll generate index entries on stderr for -.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.Sh), items (.Ip), and index +.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. .ie \nF \{\ @@ -132,7 +124,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "POLYGLOT 6" -.TH POLYGLOT 6 "2009-09-04" "" "" +.TH POLYGLOT 6 "2009-09-05" "" "" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -160,7 +152,7 @@ polyglot [configfile] epd-test [engineoptions] [\-epd inputfile] [\-min\-depth d 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. @@ -191,7 +183,7 @@ by \*(L"Polyglot\*(R". This makes it easy to filter them in the \s-1GUI\s0. .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 @@ -236,12 +228,12 @@ it is difficult to identify the latter. If invoked with \*(L"\-exact\*(R" the 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 @@ -290,7 +282,7 @@ This is an alias for \-pg \*(L"LogFile=\*(R". This is an alias for \-pg \*(L"Book=true\*(R" \-pg \*(L"BookFile=\*(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 @@ -325,7 +317,7 @@ equal probability. .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 @@ -344,7 +336,7 @@ moves and weights from \*(L"in1\*(R" will be retained in \*(L"out\*(R". .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 @@ -359,7 +351,7 @@ The name of the output file. .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 @@ -371,7 +363,7 @@ Attempt to count the provably unreachable positions among the isolated ones. 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 @@ -396,7 +388,7 @@ Minimal search depth when the search is stopped using \*(L"\-depth\-delta\*(R". 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 @@ -427,7 +419,7 @@ By default initial and final white space is stripped from option 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. @@ -527,10 +519,10 @@ does not matter. .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. @@ -567,7 +559,7 @@ file, or delete it to restore the default options. .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 @@ -622,7 +614,7 @@ Engines that send options with \*(L"Draw\*(R" in their name are Rybka and \s-1HI 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