Console Mode Commands Summary

Below is a summary of the commands available in Console Mode. They are grouped by functionalities for easier referencing. Command and parameters are not case-sensitive.

	Command	Alias	Parameters	Short Description
Playing a game	auto			Lets the chess engine play both colours until end of game.
	go			Lets the chess engine make one move for the side to move.
	new	variant	["normal" \| "suicide" \| "atomic" \| "crazyhouse" \| "losers"]	Starts a new chess game in the specified variant.
	suicide			Starts a new suicide chess game.
	atomic			Starts a new atomic chess game.
	crazy	crazyhouse		Starts a crazyhouse chess game.
	losers			Starts a losers chess games.
	white			Sets engine to play white.
	black			Sets engine to play black.
	none	neither		Sets engine to play no colour.
Display Options	verbose	post	["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets or toggles verbose mode. "?" shows current setting.
	board			Displays (one time) the current chess board.
	show		["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets or toggles the automatic showing of the chess board. "?" shows the current setting.
	tags			Displays the games' PGN tags
	notation	nota	["san" \| "short" \| "long" \| "xboard" \| "?"]	Changes or displays the move's notation format.
	details		["high" \| "low" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets or toggles the opening moves' statistic details for rarely played moves. "?" shows the current setting.
	highlight	hilite	["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets or toggles the colour highlighting of console display.
	colour	color	["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Aliases to "highlight"
Search Control	depth	sd	[N]	Sets the maximum search depth to N.
	time	st	[N]	Sets the average think time to N seconds.
	abwin		[N]	Sets the alpha-beta search window to ±N.
	extend	ext	["threat" \| "promote" \| "pawnpush" \| "recap" \| "forced" \| "nonpv" \| "sacrifice" \| "limit" ] <N> ["?"]	Sets or displays the search extension for normal chess. <N> can be fractional.
	intiterate		["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets or toggles internal iterative deepening during search.
	razoring		["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets or toggles razoring/futility pruning during search.
	probebook		["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets or toggles opening book probing during search. See configuration item of the same name for details.
Moves Browsing	list			Shows the moves made so far
	back	-	[N]	Goes back N moves.
	forward	+	[N]	Goes forward N moves.
	first	<<		Goes to start of game (or the initial position).
	last	>>		Goes to end of move list.
Crazyhouse Specific	holding			Shows the pieces being held by both sides.
	promoted			Shows which squares that contain a promoted piece.
Hints	hints		[N]	Evaluates all moves to depth N and display the sorted results.
	examine	exam	<MOVE>	Evaluates a single move until think time's up or set depth reached.
Position Information	legal			List all legal moves from the current position.
	score			Display a simple material + positional score. The score is only meaningful in normal/wild chess games.
	eval	=		Performs a static evaluation of the position. Can be used for all variants.
	pawns			Displays information about the pawn structure.
	attackers	attk	<S>	Displays all legal attackers on square S.
	eco			Displays the ECO code and name of the current position.
Game Annotation	anno	annotate	<outfile> [N] ["append"]	Performs game annotation from the current position to move number [N] or the end of game if [N] is not specified. If "append" is specified then the output is appended to the output file instead of creating a new one. The output is an ASCII text file.
	xmlanno	xanno	<outfile> [N] ["append"]	Similar to "anno" above but output is an XML formatted file.
Opening Books	book		["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets or toggles the use of opening book. "?" shows the current setting.
	ratio		["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets or toggles the use of win/lose ratio when selecting an opening book move. "?" shows the current setting.
	estimate		<file>	Estimates the amount of memory needed to create an opening book from the PGN formatted games in <file>.
	makebook	book>	<file> [N]	Creates an uncompressed opening book (for the current variant) from a PGN formatted game file, accepting the first N moves only. An index file will be generated also if the book file is large.
	reindex	bkidx	[N]	Creates an index file ("Opening.idx") from the current book file by examining every N records. The index file is required for books that are large. Re-indexing works on compressed book files also.
	mergebook	+book	<src1> <src2> <dest>	Merge two uncompressed book files into a single one.
	trimbook	-book	<src> <dest> [N]	Removes positions in the source book file <src> that appeared in less than N games. The result is written as <dest>. Only uncompressed are supported.
	bookcomp	bkc		Compresses the currently active opening book of the current variant.
	bookdecomp	bkd		Decompresses the currently active opening book of the current variant.
	reload		["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Enables, disables or toggles the reloading of the opening book after each game.
Endgame Tablebases	egtb		["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets or toggles the use of EGTBs. "?" shows the current setting.
	egtbgen		<name> \| "2" \| "3" \| "4" \| "5" \| "all" ["comp"]	Generates EGTB file(s) for the specified pieces or generates 2, 3, 4 or all the EGTB files automatically. Output are saved according the the EGTB file structure with the base directory specified in a configuration item. Existing files are NOT overwritten. Specify "comp" if only compressed files are to be generated.
	egtbcomp	egtbc	<name> \| "2" \| "3" \| "4" \| "5" \| "all" <pattern> ["2" \| "3" \| "4" \| "5"]	Compresses the specific (or all) the EGTB files. The uncompressed files are NOT deleted. Compresses the files that has matching EGTB name pattern for a given piece count. Pattern matching is the same as those used by "dir".
	egtbdecomp	egtbd	<name> \| "2" \| "3" \| "4" \| "5" \| "all" <pattern> ["2" \| "3" \| "4" \| "5"]	Decompresses the specific (or all) the EGTB files. The uncompressed files are NOT deleted. Decompresses the files that has matching EGTB name pattern for a given piece count. Pattern matching is the same as those used by "dir".
	egtbconv			Converts all uncompressed V2.5.13 EGTB files into V2.5.14 ones. The old files are overwritten with the new ones. Only the files for the current variant will be changed.
	egtbinfo		<name>	Displays information on an EGTB file.
	egtbcache		[N ["MB" \| "KB"] \| "file" \| "mem"]	Selects the use of temporary file or in memory EGTB generation method, sets the file cache size or displays the current settings.
	egtbcheck	egtbchk	<name>	Verifies the given EGTB file.
	cacheegtb	cacheegtbfiles	["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets or toggles the caching of recently used EGTB files during EGTB generation. Needs a lot of memory (>128MB).
Hash Tables	hash	#	["clear"]	Displays hash table information or clears the hash tables.
	poshash		[N ["MB" \| "KB"]]	Displays or sets the positional hash table sizes.
	pawnhash		[N ["MB" \| "KB"]]	Displays or sets the pawn structure hash table sizes.
	learnhash		[N ["MB" \| "KB"]]	Displays or sets the learning hash table sizes.
Configuration	mkdirs			Creates the default directory structures used for opening books, EGTBs, saved games and learned files.
	showconfig	config		Displays the values of the configuration items.
	saveconfig	config>		Saves the current setting into a configuration file "KKFChess.cfg".
	loadconfig	config<		Reads the configuration file "KKFChess.cfg" to set the configuration items' values.
PGN Files	save	pgn>	<file> ["append"]	Creates or appends to a PGN formatted game from the moves made so far.
	load	pgn<	<file> [N]	Loads the N'th PGN game from the given file.
	chkpgn	checkpgn	<src> [<dest>]	Validates a PGN file's games and write the valid ones to the file <dest> if required.
	pgnsort		<src>	Creates files "WhiteWon.pgn", "BlackWon.pgn", "Drawn.pgn" and "Unknown.pgn" from the <src> PGN file by examining the "Result" tag. The output files are stored in the current directory.
	pgnsplit		<src> <dest1> <dest2>	Splits the <src> file into two files, each containing about half the number of games of the source.
	loadnext	load+	[N]	Loads the next game or the N'th game after the current one in the last read PGN file.
	loadprev	load-	[N]	Loads the previous game or the N'th game before the current one in last read PGN file.
FEN / EPD Files	fen		[FEN]	Displays the current position in FEN string or converts a FEN string into a position.
	fensave	fen>	<file> ["append"]	Creates a FEN string from the current position then saves as or appends to the specified file.
	fenload	fen<	<file> [N]	Loads the N'th position from a file.
	epd		<file> [S] [N]	Solves <N> positions in the EPD file, starting at the <S>'th position. Defaults are from the first position to the last position.
	epdmatches		<N>	Sets the number of consecutive best move matches that is required before an EPD position is solved.
	chkcastle	checkcastling	["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Enables, disables or toggles the checking of castling rights.
Piece Values	values			Displays the current pieces' values.
	knight		[N]	Displays or sets the knight's value.
	bishop		[N]	Displays or sets the bishop's value.
	rook		[N]	Displays or sets the rook's value.
	queen		[N]	Displays or sets the queen's value.
Learning	learn		"white" \| "black" \| "both" \| "opt" \| "clean"	Learns the moves for the specified colour(s) from the current game. If "opt" is specified then the learned files are optimised written to the current directory. The "clean" option is used to delete the learned files for the currently selected chess game type.
Logging	log		["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "clear" \| "?"]	Sets, toggles the logging option or clears the log file. "?" shows the current setting.
Others	fritz			Used for interfacing with Fritz 6's GUI with a winboard adaptor.
	xboard			Enters Winboard mode.
	uci			Enters UCI mode.
	bench	benchmark	"all" \| "pseudo" \| "legal" \| "moves" \| "eval" \| "search" \| "comp" \| "nocomp"	Performs simple benchmarks on pseudo legal moves generation, legal moves generation, making and unmaking of moves, position evaluation, tree search and compression/decompression. The option "nocomp" will run all the benchmarks except compression/decompression.
	help	?	[TOPIC]	Displays this HTML help page or the console base help file.
	quit	exit		Terminates the program.
	version			Displays version information with some compile-time options.
	prime		<N>	Finds the largest prime that is less than or equals to N.
	8queens	8qs		Solves the 8 queens problem. The solutions will be displayed on the screen and also logged to the log file (if logging is enabled).
	compress	comp	<src> <dest>	Compresses the <src> file into <dest>. As with many compression techniques, the compressed file many be LARGER than the uncompressed one if the source data is fairly random.
	decompress	decomp	<src> <dest>	Decompresses a file.
	compidx		["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets, toggles or displays the creation and use of indexing blocks for compressed files.
	compblksz		[N] \| "min" \| "max"	Sets or displays the blocking size to be used for file compression.
	bell	sound	["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Sets or toggles the beeping after the engine has made a move.
	beep		["on" \| "off" \| "+" \| "-" \| "?"]	Another alias for bell.
	!		<cmd>	Executes the DOS / shell command <cmd>.
	$		<file>	Executes the commands in a script file. Script files should not have additional '$' commands.