POLYGLOT(6)

💖 POLYGLOT(6) 💖

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because we're talking about polyglot-chess — and she is literally a chess engine protocol adaptor. Her whole thing? She connects a UCI protocol engine to an xboard frontend. That's it, that's the job, and she ate. ✨

---

✨ NAME ✨

polyglot-chess — it's a chess engine protocol adaptor, no cap. She takes a UCI protocol engine and hooks it up to an xboard frontend. Matchmaker energy fr fr 🫶

---

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

polyglot-chess <INI files>

---

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So this manual page is here to document the polyglot-chess command. Iconic of us, honestly.

Here's the tea: polyglot-chess acts as an xboard engine. And as far as the interface is concerned — think scid, knights, xboard — there should be no difference with a normal chess program. Like, none. She's blending in. Undercover. Main character in disguise. 👑

Wanna use PolyGlot with XBoard? You'd type something like this:

> xboard -fd 'polyglot-chess_dir' -fcp 'polyglot engine.ini'

⚠️ The quotes are important when there's a space in the argument. Do not skip the quotes, I'm begging you. 🙈

---

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• <INI file> — PolyGlot gets invoked with polyglot-chess <INI file>. Heads up though: PolyGlot will look for the INI file in the current directory. So the user is encouraged to make a .polyglot-chess directory in their home and drop the <INI files> in there. Way cleaner, way cuter. 🎀 And if you give her no <INI file> at all? She just picks polyglot-chess.ini by default. She's got you. 🫶

---

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• /usr/share/doc/polyglot-chess — go read it, bestie
• More info is included in the upstream readmes and the examples 📚

---

👑 AUTHOR 👑

polyglot-chess was written by Fabien Letouzey, <fabien_letouzey@hotmail.com>. Respect the architect. 💜

The official distribution web site is Leo Dijksman's WBEC Ridderkerk: http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ — and that's where you should be looking for PolyGlot updates in the future, periodt. Go to the download section, there's a link to polyglot-chess right on the main page. 🔥

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

---

okay that's the whole page, you're officially a polyglot-chess expert now, no cap 💖 This lil doc came to you courtesy of Oliver Korff, dated Aug 29 2005, filed under POLYGLOT(6) — yeah she's an old queen but she still slays. go forth and connect those engines bestie 🧚✨