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EBOARD(6)			  Games Manual			       EBOARD(6)

NAME
     eboard - a graphical chess board

SYNOPSIS
     eboard [-log] [-debug] [-dgtport device ]

DESCRIPTION
     This manual page briefly describes the eboard command.

     eboard is a graphical chess board. It acts as an interface to chess engines
     (like  GNU  Chess,  Sjeng and Crafty) and Internet Chess Servers (ICS) like
     FICS (http://www.freechess.org), and works as a  browser  for  chess  games
     saved  as PGN (Portable Game Notation) files.  eboard itself is not a chess
     engine: it won't play games, it will just act as a graphical interface  be-
     tween programs that play games like GNU chess (or ICS servers) and the end-
     user.

     To  move  pieces  click  on the source square and then click to destination
     square. Optionally, you may drag the piece from the source to the	destina-
     tion  square  (you  won't	see  the piece being dragged). To drop pieces on
     crazyhouse and bughouse variants  (ICS-only)  right-click	the  destination
     square and select the piece to drop from the popup menu.

     For  help	with  ICS  commands consult the server (most of them have online
     help and help channels).

     For help setting up associated programs (chess engines, timestamping, etc.)
     see the documentation in /usr/share/doc/eboard or visit the eboard web site
     at https://github.com/fbergo/eboard. If the documentation is not  installed
     in  your system, you can find it in the source distribution, available from
     the web site.

OPTIONS
     -log   Log network communications to "~/LOG.eboard". Communications held in
	    password mode are not logged.

     -debug
	    Print miscellaneous debug info to "~/DEBUG.eboard".

     -dgtport device
	    Use the DGT board connected to the given device.

AUTHORS
     eboard was developed by Felipe Bergo. This manual page was written  by  Fe-
     lipe Bergo <fbergo@gmail.com> and Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>.

WEBSITE
     https://github.com/fbergo/eboard

				  March 7, 2016 		       EBOARD(6)

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