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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