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Subject: Re: Faile 1.1.4 in tournament - and why Lara Croft doesn't fail

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 10:48:57 08/04/00

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On August 04, 2000 at 05:25:45, Luca Dormio wrote:

>On August 03, 2000 at 19:13:32, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>[SNIP]
>>Currently I run a match between Stobor and another program every night via
>>WinBoard, but I'm worried that I'm tuning Stobor against only one program. I'd
>>like to be able to automatically run games between Stobor and a handful of >other engines.
>
>Here at G_6 (an Italian mailing list of chess programmers) we run out tests with
>Winboard and a simple batch file:
>
>--- begin multimatch.bat ---
>@echo off
>pause
>
>echo running match 1...
>start /wait winboard.exe -debug -cp -fcp "engine1" -scp "engine2" -sgf
>match1.pgn @match.ini
>copy winboard.debug match1.debug
>
>echo running match 2...
>start /wait winboard.exe -debug -cp -fcp "engine2" -scp "engine3" -sgf
>match2.pgn @match.ini
>copy winboard.debug match2.debug
>
>echo running match 3...
>start /wait winboard.exe -debug -cp -fcp "engine3" -scp "engine1" -sgf
>match3.pgn @match.ini
>copy winboard.debug match3.debug
>
>REM and so on...
>
>--- end multimatch.bat ---
>
>"match.ini" contains the options regarding time control, number of games... also
>contains "/popupExitMessage=false" that allow wb to exit immediatly after the
>end of a match without prompting the user with the result.
>
>Hope this helps, Regards
>Luca

Thank you. For some reason I thought this would spawn three simultaneous
instances of WinBoard, but evidently that's not the case.

-Tom



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