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6 polyglot-chess - is a chess engine protocol adaptor. It connects a UCI
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10 polyglot-chess <INI files>
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13 This manual page documents the polyglot-chess command.
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15 polyglot-chess acts as an xboard engine. There should be no difference
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19 To use PolyGlot with XBoard, you would type something like this:
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21 > xboard -fd 'polyglot-chess_dir' -fcp 'polyglot engine.ini'
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28 PolyGlot is invoked using "polyglot-chess <INI file>". Note that Poly‐
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39 polyglot-chess was written by Fabien Letouzey, <fabien_letouzey@hot‐
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47 This manual page was written by Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de>, for the
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52Oliver Korff Aug 29 2005 POLYGLOT(6)