SJENG(6)

🎀 NAME 🎀

sjeng — a chess program that also does several variants, because why play one kind of chess when you can play many 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sjeng

that's it bestie, that's the whole thing 🫶

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so first thing: the actual documentation for sjeng lives at /usr/share/doc/sjeng/README. go read it, fr fr 📖

and here's the strong recommendation: you really really want to run sjeng in combination with some interface like xboard or eboard. not me showing up to the chess party solo 😭 so yeah — go read the documentation of xboard and eboard to find out how to enable variants. iykyk 🧚

🌸 the config file situation 🌸

there are no command line options for sjeng. none. zero. that's not the vibe here 💀

but!! sjeng uses a configuration file, and by default that's /etc/sjeng.rc ⭐

if it exists, the file ~/.sjeng/sjeng.rc in the user's home directory will be read instead of the system default. so your personal one wins, main character energy 👑

a well-documented example configuration can be found in /usr/share/doc/sjeng/examples/ — go peek, it's giving study guide 🎀

🦋 a lil' lore drop 🦋

this manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. so we made one. you're welcome bestie 💖

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Sjeng was written by Gian-Carlo Pascotto <gcp@sjeng.org>, based on work done by Adrien Regimbald <adrien@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>. legends, honestly 🫶✨

this manual page was written by Lukas Geyer <lukas@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). iconic of them tbh 💅

aaaand that's the whole page!! this one's serving May 28, 2002 energy — vintage but still slaying, from the Games Manual era 💜🎀 bye bestie, go play some chess!! ♟️🌸