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+.TH PHALANX "6" "January 2008" "Phalanx XXII"
+.SH NAME
+Phalanx \- Chess playing program
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B phalanx
+[\fIoptions\fR] [\fI<moves> <minutes> \fR[\fI<increment in seconds>\fR]]
+.br
+.B phalanx
+[\fIoptions\fR] [\fI<seconds per move>\fR]
+.br
+.B phalanx
+\fIbench\fR
+.br
+.B phalanx
+\fIbcreate \fR[\fIoptions\fR]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This manual page documents briefly the
+.BR phalanx
+program.
+This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
+(but may be used by others), because the original program does not
+have a manual page.
+.PP
+.B phalanx
+is a chess playing program.  It is partially xboard compatible. Under
+xboard, it can play games, force & undo moves, and show thinking. In
+this version, you cannot set positions with xboard.
+.PP
+It is also possible to run phalanx without xboard. Do
+.B phalanx -?
+to get a list of command line options.  One important command of
+phalanx's ASCII interface is
+.B help.
+.PP
+.B phalanx
+uses (traditional) 10x12 board implementation. There are three often
+used board implementations: "8x8" (GNU Chess), "bitboard" (Crafty), and
+"10x12" (Nimzo, Phalanx). In short, "10x12" is easy to implement and the
+code is small (==fast on PC).  Opening book is small, simple,
+hand-written.
+.PP
+.SH OPTIONS
+\fB\-t\fR <transposition table size in kilobytes>
+.HP
+\fB\-f\fR <fixed search time in seconds>
+.TP
+\fB\-x\fR <+/->
+xboard mode on/off        default: on
+.TP
+\fB\-p\fR <+/->
+permanent brain on/off    default: off
+.TP
+\fB\-s\fR <+/->
+show thinking on/off      default: off
+.TP
+\fB\-c\fR <+/->
+cpu time                  default: off
+.TP
+\fB\-o\fR <+/->
+polling input             default: on
+.TP
+\fB\-b\fR <+/->
+opening book              default: on
+.TP
+\fB\-r\fR <resign value in centipawns>
+default: 0 (no resigning)
+.TP
+\fB\-e\fR <easy level 0...100>
+default: 0 (best play)
+.TP
+\fB\-l\fR <+/->
+learning on/off           default: on
+.TP
+\fB\-v\fR
+print version and exit
+.HP
+\fB\-P\fR <primary book directory>
+.HP
+\fB\-S\fR <secondary book directory>
+.HP
+\fB\-L\fR <learning file directory>
+.HP
+\fB\-g\fR <log file name>
+.PP
+.SH EXAMPLES 
+phalanx \fB\-c\fR+ \fB\-s\fR+ \fB\-o\fR - \fB\-x\-\fR \fB\-f\fR 60 \fB\-t4000\fR
+
+xboard \fB\-fcp\fR "phalanx \fB\-l\fR+ \fB\-r800\fR"
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+/usr/doc/Phalanx-*, 
+.IR xboard(6)
+.SH AUTHOR
+Phalanx was written by Dusan  Dobes  <dobes@math.muni.cz>.  This manual
+page was written by Stephen Stafford <bagpuss@debian.org> for the Debian
+GNU/Linux project, but may be used by others.  It was written with the
+assistance of 
+.IR help2man(1) 
+and then edited slightly to clean it up. Modified by Marco Pessotto.