PENTOBI(6)

💖 PENTOBI 💖

okay bestie, you found the man page for pentobi — that's the command that opens up Pentobi, the iconic graphical user interface and computer opponent for the board game Blokus. yes. an actual robot that will absolutely humble you at Blokus. no cap. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

pentobi — computer opponent for the board game Blokus 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pentobi [--maxlevel n] [--mobile] [--nobook] [--nodelay] [--seed n]
        [--threads n] [--verbose] [file.blksgf]

pentobi -h | --help

pentobi -v | --version

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

pentobi is literally the command you type to invoke the program Pentobi, which is a graphical user interface and a computer opponent for the board game Blokus. two things in one, she's versatile like that.

The command can take the name of a game file to open at startup as an optional argument — so you can be like "open this game immediately, I have no patience today." The game file is expected to be in Pentobi's SGF format, as documented in Pentobi-SGF.md in the Pentobi source package. iykyk 📖✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

she has range. let's go one by one, no skipping, I know my girl. 💜

• -h, --help — Display help and exit. the classic "what do I do" move.
• --maxlevel n — Set the maximum playing level. Lowering this value lowers how much memory the search eats up, which is genuinely useful if you're running Pentobi on a system that has low memory or is too slow for the highest levels. By default, Pentobi currently allocates up to 2 GB — but never more than a quarter of the physical memory available on the system. Dropping the maximum level to 8 currently reduces that amount by a factor of 3 to 4, and lower maximum levels reduce it even more. tiny machine, big dreams. 🍓
• --mobile — Use a window layout optimized for smartphones, and apply some user interface changes that assume a touchscreen is the main input device. If you don't use this option, the default layout depends on the platform. Using this option also changes the default style for GUI elements of QQuickControls 2 to Default — but only if the style isn't explicitly set with option -style. 🫶📱
• --nobook — Do not use opening books. no memorized openings today, she's freestyling.
• --nodelay — Do not delay fast computer moves. By default, the computer player adds a small delay when the move generation took less than a second, so it's easier for the human to follow the game when the computer plays several moves in a row. turn off the drama, turn on the speed. 🔥
• --seed n — Set the seed for the random generator. Using a fixed seed makes the move generation deterministic — if no multi-threading is used (see option --threads). one seed, one destiny. 🌈
• --threads n — The number of threads to use in the search. By default, up to 8 threads are used in the search, depending on the number of hardware threads supported by the current system. Using more threads speeds up the move generation, but using a very high number of threads (e.g. more than 8) can degrade the playing strength in higher playing levels. so, like, more is not always more, bestie. 💀
• --verbose — Print internal information about the move generation and other debugging information to standard error. she's telling you everything now. 🗣️
• -v, --version — Display version and exit. quick little flex, then she's gone. ✨

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🌈 STANDARD QT OPTIONS 🌈

On top of all that, any options supported by Qt applications can be used, such as:

• -display d — Switches displays on X11.
• -geometry g — Window geometry using the X11 syntax.
• -style s — Set the style for the GUI elements of QQuickControls.

Qt said "I also have opinions" and honestly? respect. 🎀

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• pentobi-thumbnailer

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real talk: everything above is exactly as the original says it — I just made it cute. the flags do not care about my vibes. 💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🥳 this one comes from Pentobi 23.1, dated 2023-03-12 — go forth and lose gracefully to a computer at Blokus, mwah 💋👑🌸