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Subject: Re: Automated games w/ winboard

Author: Chris Moreton

Date: 17:41:14 01/16/99

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If playing many games using multi-games, in order to get a report of the wins,
losses and draws (I never did find a way in Winboard), you can use the Analyse
Winboard Log option in Rival.

Chris

On January 16, 1999 at 19:40:06, Heiko Mikala wrote:

>
>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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