BSD Ports

games/phalanx 25 DragonFly

Xboard-compatible chess playing program

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2+
Categories
games
Package size
297.1 KiB, 645.7 KiB installed

Description

Phalanx is a chess playing program. Phalanx is xboard compatible. Running with xboard: 'xboard -fcp phalanx'. Note that permanent brain (pondering) is off by default. Newer versions of xboard set it on with the 'hard' command. If this does not work, try 'xboard -fcp "phalanx -p+"' or (for <4.0.0 versions of xboard) change your initString (see Xboard documentation for details). It's better to stop permanent brain in both programs, when playing Phalanx against another program on a machine with one CPU.

It's also possible to run phalanx without xboard. Do "phalanx -h" to get a list of command line options. One important command of phalanx's ASCII interface is "help".

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
DragonFlygames/phalanx25
FreeBSDgames/phalanx25
NetBSDwip/phalanx25
HardenedBSDgames/phalanx25
GhostBSDgames/phalanx25

Install

Binary package:

pkg install phalanx

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/games/phalanx && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The phalanx port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing