README
Sloppy is a free chess engine
Copyright (C) 2007 - 2009 Ilari Pihlajisto (ilari.pihlajisto@mbnet.fi)
LICENSE AND WARRANTY
Sloppy is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
Sloppy is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
COMPILING
In UNIX/Linux systems just type "make" to compile Sloppy. There is no
"make install" though, so if you want to install Sloppy to an other
directory you'll need to copy the executable and the opening book (if any)
to said directory.
The Windows version compiles at least with Mingw and Microsoft's Visual C++
compiler. Makefiles for both are included (Makefile.mgw and Makefile.win).
INTERFACE, COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
Sloppy uses the Xboard chess engine communication protocol. So if you want to
use a GUI (you probably do), make sure it implements Xboard protocol 2. If
it only supports UCI, you can still use Sloppy with the wb2uci adapter:
http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/Wb2Uci/
Sloppy doesn't accept any command line options, see configuration below.
CONFIGURATION
Sloppy is configured by editing the configuration file ("sloppy.conf").
On Windows systems the configuration file should be placed to the same
directory where the executable is.
On non-Windows systems the configuration file should be placed to
$HOME/.config/sloppy/ directory.
ASCII INTERFACE COMMANDS
In addition to all Xboard input, Sloppy accepts these commands:
bench runs Sloppy's own benchmark
debug toggles debugging mode
divide [d] perft to depth [d], prints a node count for every move
help shows this list
perft [d] runs the perft test to depth [d]
printboard prints an ASCII chess board and the FEN string
printeval prints the static evaluation
printkey prints the hash key
printmat prints the material each player has on the board
printmoves prints a list of legal moves
quit quits the program
readpgn [f] imports pgn file [f] to the book
readpgnlist [f] imports a list of pgn files (in file [f]) to the book
testpos [sec] [fen] runs a test position (eg. WAC, WCSAC)
testsee [fen] [move] tests the Static Exchange Evaluator
testsuite [sec] [f] runs a list of test positions (in file [f])
xboard switches to Xboard/Winboard mode