Author: Heiko Mikala
Date: 16:40:06 01/16/99
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On January 16, 1999 at 13:37:13, Matthew Herman wrote: >Hi, > >I saw on http://www.cent.co.yu/chess/ that there were automated matches >between winboard engines, how is this acocmplished? > >I know that you can have them play against each other at startup.. but how do >you get it to continue to play without having to hit reset game? I use some batch-files that I made for the different pairings of programs. They look like this: winboard /cp /scp="Phalanx-XVIII -t8192" /sd="e:\schach\winboard\Phalanx-XVIII" /fcp=CometA95 /fd="e:\schach\winboard\CometA95" /autoflag /mg 10 /sgf pha-com.pgn /tc 30 /inc 0 /-reuse /-reuse2 All the above is one line in the batch file. /cp says that I want to use Winboard to play with engines /fcp gives the name and parameters of the first engine /scp gives the name and parameters of the second engine /fd gives the path to where the first engine is located /sd gives the path to where the second engine is located /autoflag tells Winboard to automatically stop games which are mate / stalemate / drawn /mg x tells Winboard to play x games in a row /sgf gives the name of the PGN file in which Winboard should save the games /tc x is the time-control (tc 30 means 30 minutes per game) /inc gives the time increment per move /reuse means: restart the first engine for each new game /reuse2 means: restart the second engine for each new game The /reuse flag is used, because some engines don't work correctly when a new game is started by using the "new" command. /reuse will simply start a new, fresh instance of the engine. Remember, that some engines require to edit an ini-file to set hash sizes etc. And remember to turn off pondering for both engines! Hope this helps, greetings, Heiko.
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