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.TH PHALANX 6
.\" NAME should be all caps, SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
.\" other parms are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
.SH NAME
phalanx \- chess playing program
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B phalanx
.I "[-?]"
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This manual page documents briefly the
.BR phalanx
program.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
(but may be used by others), because the original program does not
have a manual page.
.PP
.B phalanx
is a chess playing program. It is partially xboard compatible. Under
xboard, it can play games, force & undo moves, and show thinking. In
this version, you cannot set positions with xboard.
.PP
It is also possible to run phalanx without xboard. Do
.B phalanx -?
to get a list of command line options. One important command of
phalanx's ASCII interface is
.B help.
.PP
.B phalanx
uses (traditional) 10x12 board implementation. There are three often
used board implementations: "8x8" (GNU Chess), "bitboard" (Crafty), and
"10x12" (Nimzo, Phalanx). In short, "10x12" is easy to implement and the
code is small (==fast on PC). Opening book is small, simple,
hand-written.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR xboard(6)
.SH AUTHOR
Phalanx was written by Dusan Dobes <dobes@math.muni.cz>.
This manual page was written by Milan Zamazal <pdm@fi.muni.cz>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
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