Author: José Carlos
Date: 01:37:01 12/07/00
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On December 06, 2000 at 18:51:08, Tim Mann wrote: >>I have no knowledge on the subject of programming, >... >>would it be possible to either make a program which will conduct and run >>automated tournaments under the, brilliant!! Winboard GUI > >Of course it's possible to write such a program -- but of course some knowledge >of programming would be needed! > >> "simply" add that as a function/feature in the next version of Winboard??? > >I have no plans to do that. Perhaps someone else will contribute code for it, >though I doubt that will happen. I wrote a program some time ago in VB that lets you choose the participants for the tournament, makes the pairings and calls Winboard with the appropiate programs to play, standing hidden with no CPU consuming. The problems for most people are: - I use MSAccess to store programs information (directory, command line...). This forces any user to own MSAccess. Either, it takes some time to save all the programs information for the first time. However, it is very fast to add new programs to the database. In addition, it has no number limit, so you can have all versions of all programs ready to play (in the actual ini, you have space restrictions). - If I generate a setup file with VB, it includes a lot of libraries, that makes it several Mb's size. Anyway, I can send the source code to anyone interested. - It's in spanish. And I really have no time to spend translating it to english. I mostly use this tool to test my program against a bunch of others, because the way I make the pairings is: the 1-2, 1-3, ..., 1-n, 2-3, 2-4, ..., 2-n. So I put my program the first of the list, set 2 games per match and let it overnight. Anyone interested, email me at: smyslov@hotmail.com Or just post here. José C.
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