Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 20:36:49 08/04/00
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On August 04, 2000 at 13:48:57, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 the start /w command tells windows not to start the next iteration of the batch file until the program that start calls exits.
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