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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:32:04 08/02/05

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On August 02, 2005 at 21:23:17, manuel2 wrote:

>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 ;)

What version of Fritz do you have?
Some older versions cannot play with UCI engines either.
In such a case, you must use the Auto232 adapter to play against any engine that
is not a chessbase engine.

See:
http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/auto232player2.html
and also:
http://www.dgtprojects.com/Documentation/GameKeeper.htm



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