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Subject: Re: how to make two programs go head to head - tutorial?

Author: manuel2

Date: 18:23:17 08/02/05

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On August 02, 2005 at 21:15:17, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On August 02, 2005 at 20:20:39, manuel2 wrote:
>
>>hiya all ! i'm looking for a step-by-step tutorial on how to best have two
>>programs play against each other automatically and have the game recorded - say
>>fritz against cm9 , etc . any ideas or sites ?
>
>That particular combination will be painful.  It is probably the most difficult
>choice there is.
>
>You would need to use an Auto232 adapter for both, or install CM as a UCI engine
>by using WB2UCI.
>
>If you have some easier combinations to try, I would suggest pitting UCI engines
>against UCI engines or WB engines against WB engines or something of that
>nature.
>

that would to it ! thanks ! any docs for that ?

>If you have Arena installed, that it the easiest way to make contests.  But you
>cannot run ChessBase engines under that GUI.
>
>Winboard is also easy, but it only pits Winboard engines against Winboard
>engines.  You can trick it with WB2UCI or with Polyglot, but that takes a bit of
>work.
>
>So let's back up a bit:
>What engines do you have available?
>What GUIs do you have available?
>What sort of contests are you interested in?

well , i relly just have good 'ol fritz and i just want to do this for fun - any
ideas of the best engines to play with ? i just want to watch the matches and
play with setting to see what i can get out of it - nothing serious ;)



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