X-Git-Url: http://winboard.nl/cgi-bin?p=xboard.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=manual%2Fhtml_node%2FEngine-Menu.html;fp=manual%2Fhtml_node%2FEngine-Menu.html;h=3ec74f05bd1ba80485de1c29d1dd1385206d7801;hp=fbf6f78b0c92f970a391138ea77c398e290ea533;hb=a36b2aca1054f083cd50958eff7e347e8aa6bfc5;hpb=2a90bf5372bfdc59dd7c88d061d0ef841d69f063 diff --git a/manual/html_node/Engine-Menu.html b/manual/html_node/Engine-Menu.html index fbf6f78..3ec74f0 100644 --- a/manual/html_node/Engine-Menu.html +++ b/manual/html_node/Engine-Menu.html @@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ Up: Menus

3.6 Engine Menu

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Load Engine
Pops up a dialog where you can select or specify an engine to be loaded. +
Load Engine
Pops up a dialog where you can select or specify an engine to be loaded. You will always have to indicate whether you want to load the engine as first or second engine, through the ‘Load menitioned engine as’ drop-down list at the bottom of the dialog. @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ will also be included in the list. For obsolete XBoard engines, which would normally take a long delay to load because XBoard is waiting for a response they will not give, you can tick ‘WB protocol v1’ to speed up the loading process. -
Engine #N Settings
Pop up a menu dialog to alter the settings specific to the applicable engine. +
Engine #N Settings
Pop up a menu dialog to alter the settings specific to the applicable engine. (The second engine is only accessible once it has been used in Two-Machines mode.) For each parameter the engine allows to be set, a control element will appear in this dialog that can be used to alter the value. @@ -80,23 +80,23 @@ and in that case the dialog will be empty (except for the OK and cancel buttons) UCI engines usually have many parameters. (But these are only visible with a sufficiently modern version of the Polyglot adapter needed to run UCI engines, e.g. Polyglot 1.4.55b.) For native XBoard engines this is less common. -
Hint
Displays a move hint from the chess engine. -
Book
Displays a list of possible moves from the chess engine's opening +
Hint
Displays a move hint from the chess engine. +
Book
Displays a list of possible moves from the chess engine's opening book. The exact format depends on what chess engine you are using. With GNU Chess 4, the first column gives moves, the second column gives one possible response for each move, and the third column shows the number of lines in the book that include the move from the first column. If you select this option and nothing happens, the chess engine is out of its book or does not support this feature. -
Move Now
Forces the chess engine to move immediately. Chess engine mode only. +
Move Now
Forces the chess engine to move immediately. Chess engine mode only. The Ctrl-M key is a keyboard equivalent. -
Retract Move
Retracts your last move. In chess engine mode, you can do this only +
Retract Move
Retracts your last move. In chess engine mode, you can do this only after the chess engine has replied to your move; if the chess engine is still thinking, use ‘Move Now’ first. In ICS mode, ‘Retract Move’ issues the command ‘takeback 1’ or ‘takeback 2’ depending on whether it is your opponent's move or yours. The Ctrl-X key is a keyboard equivalent. -
Recently Used Engines
At the bottom of the engine menu there can be a list of names +
Recently Used Engines
At the bottom of the engine menu there can be a list of names of engines that you recently loaded through the Load Engine menu dialog in previous sessions. Clicking on such a name will load that engine as first engine,