3DC(6)

👑 3DC — the games manual, but make it cute 💅

okay bestie, gather round, because we're about to talk about 3Dc — aka Program to play 3D chess for X. yes, actual three-dimensional chess, in your actual X session, and honestly? it's giving big-brain main character energy 🧠✨

✨ NAME ✨

3Dc — Program to play 3D chess for X 🎀

like, chess, but in 3D. in X. iconic behaviour, no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

3Dc [-play: white|black] [-altdisplay:|-ad: display]

that's it, that's the whole vibe check. two flags, zero drama 🦋

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so, real talk: this manual page documents briefly the 3Dc command. it's a little baby page. it does its best 🥺

and here's the lore: this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. so bestie, we made one. we literally made one. we're so generous 😭💖

the Rules of 3Dchess as played by this program can be found in:

/usr/share/doc/3dchess/3dc-rules.html

on Debian GNU/Linux systems. go read it, fr fr, iykyk 📖✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

here come the flags, bestie. there are two. only two. slay, honestly, we love a minimal interface 💅

• -play:white|black — tells the computer to play. 👑 yep, you heard me, the computer plays too. it requires a following parameter, either black or white, which tells the computer which colour to play. so like, you're not playing against yourself here (unless you want to, no judgement 💜).
• -altdisplay:display, -ad:display — tells the computer that you are playing as the white player in a network game. 🌈 it requires one additional parameter — the display to pop the black player's windows up on. the other display must allow connections, via xhost or xauth. no connection permission, no windows, and then it's just you and your sad little board 😭

heads up bestie: that second one is a two-part situation. the flag plus its parameter. don't come for me if you forget the parameter, because the manpage said so first 🙈

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

this manual page was written by Stephen Stafford <bagpuss@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but may be used by others. 🫶 sharing is caring, periodt.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 3Dc, two flags, one rules file, and a whole lot of chess energy. go play some three-dimensional chess, you absolute legend 👑♟️✨

— with love, from the Games Manual, 3DC(6), dated January 2002 🎀