SJAAKII(6)

💖 SJAAKII 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about sjaakii — the xboard-compatible chess and chess-variant engine and honestly? she's that girl. this is section 6 of the User Contributed Perl Documentation, so you know it's the good stuff 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

sjaakii — xboard-compatible chess and chess-variant engine 'SjaakII' 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sjaakii [-log|-newlog [filename]] [-variant name] [-no_user_variants]
[-xboard|-uci|-uci|-ucci] [variant file]

like yes, that's the whole vibe check right there 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so sjaakii is a program that plays chess and chess variants, no cap. it talks to the world using the xboard/winboard chess-engine protocol, which is giving fluent in engine energy 🫶

and babes, she does not just play normal chess. look at this roster:

• Seirawan Chess
• Mongolian Shatar
• Makruk (including variants ASEAN and Ai-Wok)
• Shatranj
• Sittuyin (Burmese Chess)
• Crazy House Chess
• Chessgi
• Spartan Chess
• Pocket Knight Chess
• King-of-the-Hill
• Knightmate
• Amazon Chess
• Chancellor Chess
• Berolina Chess
• Los Alamos Chess
• Micro Chess
• Capablanca Chess
• Gothic Chess
• Embassy Chess
• Courier Chess
• Grand Chess
• Opulent Chess
• Omega Chess
• Shogi (including variants Mini Shogi, Sho Shogi and Tori Shogi)
• Xiang-Qi

literally a whole friend group of variants 😭 and if your fave isn't on the list? bestie, other variants can be added through a configuration file. iconic.

want the full how-to on driving her through xboard? go read xboard(6) 📖 and if you're in a rush (we've all been there), you just need this command:

xboard -fcp sjaakii

⚠️ heads up though: some of the variants SjaakII plays are only partially supported by XBoard, and can only be played with the legality-testing function of the latter switched off. so flip that setting off or she simply won't perform, fr fr 💀

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -log [filename] — appends all communication by SjaakII and XBoard to a logfile. no filename? no stress, the log goes to sjaakii.log. 📝
• -newlog [filename] — literally -log but the file gets overwritten instead of added to. fresh start energy ✨
• -variant name — normally SjaakII starts with variant "normal" (regular chess, the classic), but this option lets her start with any other named variant. main character entrance, your choice 🎀
• -no_user_variants — do not read the default variant configuration file. you can still specify a file in the engine options though, so it's not a total lockdown 🚫
• -xboard — start in xboard mode rather than the default mode. 🌈
• -uci — start in UCI mode rather than the default mode. ⭐
• -usi — start in USI mode rather than the default mode. 🌸
• -ucci — start in UCCI mode rather than the default mode. 💜
• variant file — read variant descriptions from the named file. iykyk 🦋

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🔥 AVAILABILITY 🔥

get her from http://www.eglebbk.dds.nl/program/chess-index.html 🛍️

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

xboard(6)

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🌟 STANDARDS 🌟

WinBoard, xboard(6) interface ("Chess Engine Communication Protocol") — she speaks the language, periodt 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@dds.nl>.

also real talk: this manual page was based on the man page for Fairy-Max by H.G. Muller and was generated with pod2man(1). credit where credit is due, we love a collaborative moment 🫶

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and that's a wrap bestie!! this whole thing came to you via perl v5.30.0, dated 2020-04-03, and it's the SJAAKII(6) page 💖 go play some Omega Chess, you deserve it ✨🎀🦋