GLAURUNG(6)

📦 version 2.2, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🎀 GLAURUNG — the free UCI chess engine bestie 💖

okay so like. this is the manual page for glaurung, section 6 (games, babes 🎮✨). sit down, grab a boba, we're gonna get you computing chess moves fr fr.

✨ NAME ✨

glaurung — a free UCI chess engine, here to calculate chess moves for you 💅 no cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

glaurung

that's it. that's the whole vibe. she just runs. 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This manual page documents the glaurung command. lowkey iconic of it to have its own manual 😌

glaurung is an UCI chess engine, to calculate chess moves. that's the job. she calculates. she plays. she slays. ♟️✨

📚 Opening book 📚

This version of Glaurung has experimental support for PolyGlot opening books. if you wanna know how to create such books, go consult the PolyGlot documentation — that's where the lore lives, bestie 📖

Currently, Glaurung requires that the book file is named book.bin and is placed in Glaurung's working directory. not negotiable, not configurable, just book.bin in the working dir. periodt. 💅

🧚 More than one CPU 🧚

Beginning with version 2-epsilon/3, Glaurung has support for up to four CPUs. multitasking queen 🫶

Because the program currently cannot automatically detect the number of CPUs on your computer, it uses only a single search thread by default. so like, she's not gonna figure it out on her own, she needs you to tell her 😭

If your computer has two or more CPUs — and yes this includes dual-core CPUs like the Intel Core Duo or the AMD Athlon 64 X2 — you should set the "Threads" UCI parameter to the number of CPUs to obtain optimal performance. do that. your chess will be so much faster, it's giving main character energy 🔥

💅 OPTIONS 💅

This program does NOT follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes. she's built different. no --whatever, no -x, she said "I don't do that" 💀

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

Communication with UCI commands is documented by "The UCI Communication Protocol" in /usr/share/doc/glaurung/engine-interface.txt. go read it, iykyk 📄✨

💖 AUTHOR 💖

glaurung was written by Romstad Tord <tord@glaurungchess.com> 🫶

This manual page was written by Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). sharing is caring, bestie. 🌈

🎀 and that's the whole page! written up Juli 9, 2007 and yeah, it's the GLAURUNG(6) page, section 6 energy only. bye bestie, go compute some moves 💖♟️✨
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