pentobi - computer opponent for the board game Blokus
pentobi is the command to invoke the program Pentobi, which
is a graphical user interface and computer opponent to play the board game
Blokus.
The command can take the name of a game file to open at startup as
an optional argument. The game file is expected to be in Pentobi's SGF
format as documented in doc/blksgf/Pentobi-SGF.html in the Pentobi source
package.
- -h, --help
- Display help and exit.
- --maxlevel
- Set the maximum playing level. Reducing this value reduces the amount of
memory used by the search, which can be useful to run Pentobi on systems
that have low memory or are too slow to use the highest levels. By
default, Pentobi currently allocates up to 2 GB (but not more than a
quarter of the physical memory available on the system). Reducing the
maximum level to 8 currently reduces this amount by a factor of 3 to 4 and
lower maximum levels even more.
- --mobile
- Use a window layout optimized for smartphones and apply some user
interface changes that assume that a touchscreen is the main input device.
If this option is not used, the default layout depends on the platform.
Using this option also changes the default style for GUI elements of
QQuickControls 2 to Default if the style is not explicitly set with option
-style.
- --nobook
- Do not use opening books.
- --nodelay
- Do not delay fast computer moves. By default, the computer player adds a
small delay if the move generation took less than a second to make it
easier for the human to follow the game if the computer plays several
moves in a row.
- --seed
- 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).
- --threads
- 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 will speed 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.
- --verbose
- Print internal information about the move generation and other debugging
information to standard error.
Standard options for Qt applications:
- -display
- Switches displays on X11.
- -geometry
- Window geometry using the X11 syntax.
- -style
- Set the style for the GUI elements of QQuickControls 2. If no style is
chosen, the default style is Default if option --mobile is set and Fusion
otherwise.
Markus Enzenberger <enz@users.sourceforge.net>