AMY(6)

NAME
Amy - A chess program for playing and analyzing games

SYNOPSIS
Amy [-ht <hash table size>] [-cpu <number of cpus>]

DESCRIPTION
Amy is a chess playing program. It offers a simple command line oriented interface. It is fully compatible with the xboard graphical chessboard.

Amy supports the following commands:

<move>
    Any move legal in the current position is executed on the board. Moves can be input in algebraic notation (e.g. Nxe5) or from-to square notation (e.g. e2e4).

bench
    Runs a simple benchmark giving a raw indication of processor speed

book
    Shows the book moves in the current position

bookup filename
    Creates a book from the the supplied PGN file

d   Displays the current position

e   Shows the ECO code of the current game

easy
    Switches off permanent brain

epd EPD
    Setup a position in EPD

flatten threshold
    Flattens the book by removing all entries occuring less frequently than threshold

force
    Switch to force mode

go  Start searching from the current position

hard
    Switches on permanent brain

help
    Show help

level
    Set the time control. Some examples:

    level sd/5
        Game in 5 minutes

    level 40/15+10
        40 moves in 15 minutes with 10 seconds increment per move (Fischer clock)

    level 40/120 20/60
        First 40 moves in 2 hours, then 20 moves in 1 hour

load filename
    Load a game from a PGN file

moves
    Show all legal moves

name oppname
    Sets the opponents name

new Starts a new game

perft depth
    Run the perft benchmark

quit
    Quit Amy, return to shell.

save filename
    Save the current game to a PGN file

test filename
    Run an EPD test suite

undo
    Undo the last move

?   Move now, forces computer move

BUGS
Sure, lots of them.