Author: James Robertson
Date: 00:15:51 07/26/99
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On July 26, 1999 at 02:26:06, Peter McKenzie wrote: >On July 26, 1999 at 02:16:12, Alex Boby wrote: > >>On July 26, 1999 at 01:34:30, brain wrote: >> >>>Currently, I tweak the winboard.ini to get programs to play each other. How do I >>>configure for (a) program vs program to play a fixed number of games (say, 100 >>>games) continuously (alternating colours)and with no human interevention (so >>>that I can go to bed)? (b) store all the games in one pgn file (and I specify >>>the file name)? >>>Any help would be appreciated. >> >> >> Use the winboard command line parameter -matchGames [x] where x is the >>number of games to be played, and the colours will alternate. I don't think that >>winboard can automatically log all the games, though I may be mistaken. I > >Winboard can log PGN games, use the /saveGameFile option. For example here is a >command I've used for testing: > >winboard -fcp "chop -hash 5" -scp "chop710 -hash 5" /saveGameFile test.pgn >/matchGames 50 /timeControl 4 /timeIncrement 1 -debug > >Only problem is, you end up with a bunch of games but no summary of the results. > Thats why I wrote PGNres, which processes the PGN file and spits out results >and statistics. You can download it from: > >http://www.caverock.co.nz/~peter/chess.htm > >>usually just get one of the programs to log the games. >> >>Alex Boby I just use the shortcut commands /mg and /sgf in the 'Additional options' field in the Winboard Startup Dialog. I downloaded the new PGNres, deleted my old one, and was disappointed to find that it opens up the file displays the statistics, and exits the dos box a fraction of a second later. How can I stop this? James
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