Nocheto command line options
This page describes nocheto command line options.
Help
Use --help
to show command line options help.
$ nocheto --help Nocheto (Noidea Chess Tool) 0.33, Ubuntu19_10, author: Petr Bílek (nocheto.sallyx.org) USAGE: nocheto [-h | --help] [-d | --debug] [-c | --config <file.ini>] [-b | --board <boardtype>] [-e | --engine <engine>] [--ipv4] [ -- <file.pgn>] file.ini - Read configuration from this file (after reading nocheto.ini) boardtype - Board GUI (iso, utf8, ascii, compressed) (default utf8) engine - stockfish, gnuchess, nocheng or "arbitrary command string" (default stockfish) file.pgn - load PGN game from this file
Debug
Use --debug
to debug nocheto communication with engine.
This is mainly for developing purposes, you probably wouldn't need to use this.
Config
Use --config filename.ini
to read configuration file.
Nocheto always read ~/.nocheto/configs/nocheto.ini
file first and then the file required by
--config
option. So you can use this to create ini configuration file to change only a few
desired options.
The filename can be absolute path (i.e. ~/.nocheto/configs/tweak.ini
) or just a basename
(i.e. tweak.ini
) in which case the full path is assembled from this basename
and ~/.nocheto/configs/
.
Board type
Use --board boardtype
to select the desired
view. Available boards are: iso
, utf8
(the default), ascii
and compressed
.
ISO board
ISO board is usefull on terminals without utf8 support (i.e. on terminals where you get by CTRL+ALT+F2).

Engine
Use --engine engine
to change engine used for play and analyze games.
It is recomended to use this option over setting engine in configuration file. Keep the configuration
value on stockfish (or whatever you want to use to analyze positions by nochetodbeval).
The only supported engine for game analyzis is stockfish for now. But you can play against any engine supporting UCI protocol (i.e. stockfish, gnuchess, komodo …).
You can use configuration files to set default engine.
Search for nochetoclient
Use --ipv4
to start waiting for nochetoclient.
This behaves the same way as if you run ipv4
command just after starting nocheto.
Open PGN file
To open PGN file, just write its name after nocheto commands (and all its options).
This opens file the same as if you run open filename.pgn
command in nocheto.
