Author: Alex Boby
Date: 01:07:59 07/26/99
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On July 26, 1999 at 03:15:51, James Robertson wrote: >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 Run the program from within an msdos shell window,.. then it'll stay on the screen. If you want to capture the results just send it to a file with something like PGNres [options] > outputFile And I don't even run windows!!!
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