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Subject: Re: How to play a Winboard tournament automatically?

Author: James Robertson

Date: 22:06:09 04/19/99

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On April 20, 1999 at 00:31:01, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>Winboard can't play an entire tournament by itself, but you can have it play
>several games between two different engines.  This is done by using the
>"-matchGames" option.  For example, the line:
>
>winboard -fcp "c:\crafty\crafty.exe" -fd "c:\crafty" -scp "c:\comet\comet.exe"
>-sd "c:\comet" -time 5 -inc 0 -matchGames 20
>
>(all on one line) will play a 20 game match between Crafty and Comet (assuming
>they are in the directories I gave) with alternating colors, with time controls
>of 5 min/game (I think those are the proper syntax to make a 5 min/game, but
>they may not be).  Of course, you can add/change any of the command-line options
>you need for your purposes.
>
>Hope this helps. :)
>
>Jeremiah

I have had the same problem as Rafael. I like to run tests (with the /mg
command) overnight, but I would like to also run several different tests
sequentially in one night. I was going to try the batch file thing, but it is
discouraging to find it doesn't work....

James



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