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

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 10:52:33 01/19/04

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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!!
>
>anthony

xboard can do this. Here is a script that I use a lot:

#!/usr/bin/tcsh
# Run multiple games based on standard opening positions
cp match.pgn match.bak
rm match.pgn

set player1 = "./PMv1007 xboard"
set player2 = "./futil80 xboard"
set tc  = 3
set inc = 1
set testset = "../epd/openings.epd"

set position = 0

while ($position < 50)


	@ position++
	echo Running Position $position
	xboard -mg 2 -tc $tc -inc $inc  -lpf $testset -lpi $position \
            -sgf match.pgn -autoflag -fcp "$player1" -scp "$player2" \
            -animateMoving False -showCoords True -size Small \
	    -ponderNextMove False -popupExitMessage False

end
# this is the end of my shell script

openings.epd is an epd file with 120-ish opening positions in.


Andrew



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