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EBOARD(6)                   DragonFly 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 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". 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 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

                               January 22, 2007                      EBOARD(6)

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