GNOME-CHESS(6)
NAME
gnome-chess - graphical user interface for playing chess
SYNOPSIS
gnome-chess [OPTIONS...]
DESCRIPTION
gnome-chess is a graphical GNOME frontend for playing chess against the computer or via the Internet. It is also a viable PGN file viewer. To play against the computer, you need an external chess engine, such as GNU Chess, Crafty, or Phalanx.
OPTIONS
Apart from the standard GNOME options gnome-chess accepts the following
options:
- --version
- Prints the currently installed version of gnome-chess to the standard output.
- --help Prints a usage summary. --debug=LEVEL Enables some debugging
- functions, depending on LEVEL.
- --fcp=PROGRAM
- This option chooses the preferred chess program that will play the computer opponent. If this option is not specified, gnomechess will choose one.
- --ics If this option is specified, gnome-chess will start in ICS mode,
- meaning that it will connect to an Internet Chess Server.
- --icshost=SERVER
- Chooses the ICS server to use.
- --icsuser=USERNAME
- Sets the user name to use on ICS servers.
- --icspass=PASSWORD
- Sets the password to use on ICS servers.
- --icsport=PORT
- Chooses the ICS server's port number to connect to.
- --icstelnetprogram=TELNET
- Chooses the telnet program to use to connect to an ICS server. This defaults to the standard telnet program.
SEE ALSO
gnuchess(6), phalanx(6), telnet(1)
/usr/share/doc/gnome-chess/gnome-chess-manual/index.html
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Robert Wilhelm and JP Rosevear
- This manual page was written by Sebastian Rittau for Debian GNU/Linux.