TOGA2(6)

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version 4.0 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 TOGA2 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're doing a toga2(6) deep dive and honestly? it's giving niche icon energy. this is section 6 of the manual, so yes, it's a game — a chess engine, to be exact. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

toga2 — literally just toga2, and toga2 is a UCI-only chess engine. that's the whole vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

toga2

that's it. that's the whole thing. no flags, no drama. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page is here to document the toga2 program, briefly — we're keeping it cute and to the point.

toga2 is a UCI-only chess engine. UCI-only means UCI-only, no cap.

now, how do you actually use it? here's the tea: toga2 and other UCI engines can be used with XBoard or WinBoard (or really any other xboard-compatible interfaces) with the help of PolyGlot, which is a UCI-to-xboard adapter. another well known frontend is KDE knights, which has a UCI capable interface. so like, pick your fighter, bestie. 🧚

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

bestie. sit down. this program does NOT follow the usual GNU command line syntax. not even a little. 🙈

what it can do is get fed options with a personal config file, which can be read by the polyglot helper software. that's the move.

and the author himself says — and I quote — "You are advised to skip this section unless you are completely crazy about computer chess." iconic honestly, we respect the honesty. 💀

for a complete description of these UCI commands, see the readme files.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • Further documentation in /usr/share/doc/toga2/readme.txt

💜 AUTHOR 💜

the base program fruit was written by Fabien Letouzey <fabien_letouzey@hotmail.com> and toga2 by Thomas Gaksch <toga2@gmx.net>. 🫶

the Sourcecode including binaries for several architectures can be found at:

this manual page was written by Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). slay. 💅✨

and that's the whole page, bestie — shipped as TOGA2(6) dated July 29, 2006. old but still main character. 🎀👑💖

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