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Subject: Re: Linux and Test Games - any automated interfaces?

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 10:48:19 01/19/04

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On January 19, 2004 at 11:50:02, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On January 19, 2004 at 11:46:25, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>I would like to run some matches on my machine at home; does anyone know of an
>>interface that is capable of running a multigame match?
>>
>>AFAIK, XBoard only runs 1 game at a time.  We need Arena for Linux, Frank!!
>
>XBoard with the -mg switch allows you to run more than one game.  If you want
>to run 100 games between engine-1 and engine-2, do something like this:
>
>xboard -fcp engine-1 -fd /path/to/engine-1/ -scp engine-2 -sd /path/to-engine-2/
>-tc 4 -inc 2 -mg 100 &
>
>Tord

and

If you add '-sgf gamefile' to the above xboard will save the pgn files of the
games in a file called 'gamefile' in the current directory.

regards
Andy




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