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Subject: Re: Auto Play Winboard?

Author: Terry Presgrove

Date: 19:56:25 11/19/98

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On November 19, 1998 at 19:20:14, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>On November 19, 1998 at 18:20:11, Terry Presgrove wrote:
>
>>On November 19, 1998 at 08:24:29, Chris Moreton wrote:
>>
>>>On November 18, 1998 at 19:13:59, Terry Presgrove wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is there anyway to auto play using Winboard? It would be nice to have the
>>>>capability like the Rebel programs......maintaining won/lost,games etc.
>>>
>>>I use Winboard to play Rival against a number of different Winboard compatible
>>>engines (on the same machine).  Although Winboard saves the final positions of
>>>each game of a multimatch game in a .multimatch file, I added an menu option in
>>>Rival to analyse the output of the Winboard debug file (which is produced when
>>>using the -debug option).  This produces an instant tally of won/lost/drawn
>>>games including how they finished (resign, mate, time).  Rival is at
>>>http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/chris.moreton/howto.shtml
>>>
>>>-Chris
>>
>> Maybe I'm just missing something here but how do you set up an
>> auto play series where you don't have to restart after each game?
>> Thanks :)
>> TP
>
>In WinBoard 4.0 there is the parameter /mg n
>where n is the number of games. Like this:
>Winboard /cp /mg 10 /fcp=PGMa /scp=PGMb /tc 120 /mps 40 /inc -1 /debug
>
>This will play 10 games between PGMa and PGMb with tournament time 40 moves in
>120 miutes.
>//Peter
>PS. The both programs has to be Winboard compliant, of cource...

 Thanks......there are allot of knowledgeable folks on CCC , it is sometimes
 rather intimidating when your just a novice to ask basic questions,
 but I have found most replies to be very helpful......thanks!!!!




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