EBOARD(D)                                               EBOARD(D)



NAME
       eboard - a graphical chess board

SYNOPSIS
       eboard [-log] [-debug]

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 between 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 destination 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
       http://eboard.sourceforge.net. 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".  Com-
              munications held in password mode are not logged.

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


AUTHORS
       eboard is being developed by  Felipe  Bergo.  This  manual
       page  was  written  by  Felipe  Bergo <bergo@seul.org> and
       Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>.


WEBSITE
       http://eboard.sourceforge.net



                          April 29, 2001                EBOARD(D)