pentobi - computer opponent for the board game Blokus
pentobi [--maxlevel n]
[--mobile] [--nobook] [--nodelay]
[--seed n] [--threads n]
[--verbose] [file.blksgf]
pentobi -h | --help
pentobi -v | --version
pentobi is the command to invoke the program Pentobi, which is a
graphical user interface and computer opponent for 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 Pentobi-SGF.md in the Pentobi source package.
-h, --help
Display help and exit.
--maxlevel n
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 n
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 n
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.
-v, --version
Display version and exit.
Additionally, any options supported by Qt applications can be used, such as:
-display d
Switches displays on X11.
-geometry g
Window geometry using the X11 syntax.
-style s
Set the style for the GUI elements of
QQuickControls.
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