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.TH CHESS-INIT 6 2022-01-23 chessutils "Games Manual"
.SH NAME
chess\-init \- initialize a chess game
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B chess\-init
.SH DESCRIPTION
.MR chess\-init 6
prints an initial chess game to standard output.
.PP
Pieces are represented by the following characters:
.TP
.BR B ", " b
Bishop.
.TP
.BR K ", " k
King.
.TP
.BR N ", " n
Knight.
.TP
.BR P ", " p
Pawn.
.TP
.BR Q ", " q
Queen.
.TP
.BR R ", " r
Rook.
.PP
The board is printed in a standard orientation,
such that cell
.I a1
is bottom left,
and
.I h1
is bottom right.
.PP
See
.MR chessboard\-empty 6
for a description of the board.
.SH EXIT STATUS
On success, the program exits with a status of
.BR EXIT_SUCCESS .
On error, one of the following values can be returned.
.SH ERRORS
.TP
.B EX_IOERR
A write to standard output failed.
.PP
(See
.MR sysexits.h 0 .)
.SH EXAMPLES
.EX
$ chess\-init
RNBQKBNR
PPPPPPPP
\- \- \- \- 
\& \- \- \- \-
\- \- \- \- 
\& \- \- \- \-
pppppppp
rnbqkbnr
.EE
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2022 by
.MT alx.manpages@gmail.com
Alejandro Colomar
.ME .
.PP
SPDX-License-Identifier:
.B GPL-2.0
.SH SEE ALSO
.MR chessboard\-empty 6 ,
.MR chess\-lsmv 6 ,
.MR chess\-mv 6 ,
.MR chessutils 7