Author: José Carlos
Date: 13:31:49 06/20/00
Finally I've found time to write an automatic tounament manager for winboard engines. It's easy to use and works fine. I plan to automatically connect it to my rating calculator, so winboard tourneys can be run an computed without a single input by the user. The problem is that it is written in Visual Basic, and the setup program VB generates takes several Mb's, although the exe file is only 56kb long. I'm not sure what dll's and ocx's are present in any standard installation of Windows. If I knew, I'd take them out from the setup files in order to make it more comfortable to download. Any help would be appreciated. If anyone has VB6 installed, I can send the exe file to Sergio for he puts it for download. Oh, I forgot, I use a Access 97 database to store all the needed programs info, because ini files have a size limit that makes impossible, for example, to have in it all versions of all programs. In my database, I have configuration info for almost 200 winboard engines/versions, wich is very comfortable to test modern programs against old versions. So you need to have Access installed too. Well, my idea was just writing a tool for easily testing my program. So, it is designed thinking firstly in my system, but I'd really like it would be useful for computer chess comunity. So, I'd like to hear ideas for making this tool useful for everybody. The sources will be free for anyone who wants to improve it or make it more standard. José C.
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