EBOARD(6)

📦 version 1.1.3, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

✨ EBOARD — a graphical chess board 💖

ok so bestie, we're in the Games Manual, section 6, and this is the whole rundown on eboard. it's giving "chess but make it cute" and honestly? obsessed. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like, this page is the quick lil lowdown on the eboard command, no cap.

eboard is a graphical chess board. it's the middle bestie between you and the programs that actually do the chess — it talks to chess engines (think GNU Chess, Sjeng, and Crafty) and to Internet Chess Servers (ICS) like FICS (http://www.freechess.org), and it also works as a browser for chess games saved as PGN (Portable Game Notation) files. but listen — eboard itself is not a chess engine, okay? it will not play games. it is literally just the pretty graphical interface sitting between the programs that play games (like GNU chess, or ICS servers) and you, the end-user. it's a hype woman, not a player. 💅

to move pieces: click the source square, then click the destination square. simple. optionally you can drag the piece from the source to the destination square — heads up tho, you won't see the piece being dragged 🙈. to drop pieces on crazyhouse and bughouse variants (ICS-only, iykyk), right-click the destination square and pick the piece to drop from the popup menu. slay.

need help with ICS commands? consult the server — most of them have online help and help channels. they got you. 🫶

need help setting up the associated programs (chess engines, timestamping, etc.)? go peek at the documentation in /usr/share/doc/eboard or visit the eboard web site at https://github.com/fbergo/eboard. and if the documentation isn't installed on your system, no worries — you can find it in the source distribution, which is available from the web site. 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -log — logs network communications to "~/LOG.eboard". but bestie, communications held in password mode are not logged. your secrets are safe. 🔒
  • -debug — prints miscellaneous debug info to "~/DEBUG.eboard". when you need to see what's going on under the hood. 🔥
  • -dgtport device — use the DGT board connected to the given device. plug in, glow up, play. 👑

👑 AUTHORS 👑

eboard was developed by Felipe Bergo. this manual page was written by Felipe Bergo <fbergo@gmail.com> and Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>. legends, honestly. 🌟

🌈 WEBSITE 🌈

https://github.com/fbergo/eboard

and that's the whole vibe, bestie — this page came from the March 7, 2016 era of the Games Manual, so go forth, move some pieces, and be the main character of your own chess arc. periodt. 💅💖✨

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