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The Window Menu Explained
Game
- New
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Start a new game.
- New Rated Game
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Start a new rated game
against the computer.
- Game Variant
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Select a game variant and start a new game of this game variant.
- Computer Colors
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Select which colors are played by the computer.
- Game Info
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Display or edit additional information about the game like the
name of the players or the date when the game was played.
- Undo Move
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Undo the last move played and remove it from the game tree.
Undoing a move is only possible if it is the last move in the
current variation (i.e. a leaf node in the game tree; use
Edit/Truncate to remove inner nodes of the game tree).
- Find Move
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Find a legal move for the current color and display it for a few
seconds on the board. Selecting this item repeatedly will show all
legal moves.
- Open
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Load a saved game.
The board position after loading will be the last position in the
main variation unless the game starts with a setup position.
If the game starts with a setup, the board position will be the first
position instead.
This avoids that solutions are immediately shown if the file contains
a Blokus puzzle as a setup with the solution as the main variation.
- Open Recent
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Load a recently used saved game.
- Save
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Save the current game.
- Save As
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Save the current game under a new file name.
- Export/Image
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Save the current position as an image file.
Several image file formats are supported, the file format
is derived from the file name ending (e.g. ".png" for the PNG format).
- Export/ASCII Art
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Save the current position as a text diagram.
The text diagram should be viewed using a monospace font.
- Quit
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Quit Pentobi.
Go
- Beginning
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Go to the beginning of the game.
- 10 Backward
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Go ten moves backward in the current variation.
- Backward
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Go one move backward in the current variation.
- Forward
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Go one move forward in the current variation.
If the current position has several follow-up variations (i.e. the
current node in the game tree has several child nodes), the first
variation will be used.
- 10 Forward
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Go ten moves forward in the current variation.
Like Forward, this also uses the first variation in positions with
several follow-up variations.
- End
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Go to the end of the current variation.
Like Forward, this also uses the first variation in positions with
several follow-up variations.
- Next Variation
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Go to the next variation to the last move played (i.e. the next sibling
node of the current node in the game tree).
- Previous Variation
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Go to the previous variation to the last move played (i.e. the previous
sibling node of the current node in the game tree).
- Go to Move
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Go to the move with a given move number in the current variation.
- Back to Main Variation
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Return to the last move in the main variation that had a variation.
- Beginning of Branch
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Go back to the last position in the current variation that had an
alternative move.
- Find Next Comment
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Go to the next position that has a comment.
If the comment text field was not visible, it will become visible.
Selecting this item repeatedly will show all positions with comments
in the game tree.
Edit
- Move Annotation
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Add a chess-style move annotation symbol (e.g. !!) to the current move.
Annotation symbols are shown after the move numbers on the board and
only visible if move numbers are shown.
- Make Main Variation
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Make the current variation the main variation of the game.
This reorders the nodes in the game tree such that the current variation
becomes the main variation.
- Move Variation Up
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Changes the order of variations such that the current position
will appear earlier when iterating over the variations with
Next/Previous Variation.
- Move Variation Down
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Changes the order of variations such that the current position
will appear later when iterating over the variations with
Next/Previous Variation.
- Delete All Variations
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Delete all variations but the main variation.
If the current position is not on the main variation, it will be
changed to a position in the main variation as in
Back to Main Variation.
- Truncate
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Remove the node with the current position, including any subtree,
from the game tree.
- Truncate Children
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Remove all children nodes of the node with the current position from
the game tree.
- Keep Only Position
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Delete all moves and keep only the current position as a setup.
This can be used to create files that start with a given fixed position.
- Keep Only Subtree
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Like Keep Only Position but does not delete the moves after the
current position.
- Setup Mode
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Enter or leave setup mode.
In setup mode, pieces can be placed anywhere on the board, even
in violation of the game rules.
Existing pieces can be removed from the board by clicking on them.
The currently selected color also determines the color to play after
the setup is finished.
It can be changed with Select Next Color or by clicking on the
orientation selector while no piece is selected.
Setup mode can only be used if no moves have been played.
- Select Next Color
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Choose the next color for selecting pieces.
This can be used for example to enter game records in which moves
of a color were skipped because the color ran out of time.
View
- Toolbar
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Show or hide the toolbar.
- Toolbar Text
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Configure the appearance of the toolbar.
- Comment
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Show or hide a text field to display or edit comments on the current
position.
- Move Numbers
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Change the way move numbers are displayed on the board.
The options are to show only the number of the last move or of all
moves or to show no numbers at all.
- Coordinates
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Display coordinates for the fields on the board around the board.
The convention for the coordinates is the same as in the Blokus SGF
file format used by Pentobi.
- Show Variations
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Appends a letter to the move number on the board if the moves has
a variation.
- Fullscreen
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Make the main window full screen or leave full screen mode.
It is platform-dependent if the window menu is shown in full screen
mode.
To leave full screen mode without using the window menu, press the F11
key.
Computer
- Play
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Make the computer play a move for the current color.
This can be used to change the color the computer plays or to
resume playing after navigating in the game tree.
If the computer did not already play the current color, it will play
this color (and only this color) from now on.
- Play Single Move
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Make the computer play a single move for the current color without
changing the colors played by the computer.
- Stop
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Abort the current move generation.
You can make the computer continue to play by selecting Play.
- Level
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Change the playing strength of the computer.
Higher levels are stronger but can make the computer take a long
time for playing moves on slow computers.
Tools
- Your Rating
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Show a dialog window with the
rating of the user in the
current game variant.
- Analyze Game
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Perform a game analysis.
Help
- Contents
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Show a window to browse the Pentobi user manual.
- About
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Show an info dialog with information about this version of Pentobi.
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