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

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 22:30:11 04/19/99

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On April 20, 1999 at 01:06:09, James Robertson wrote:

>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

I didn't mean to imply that a batch file wouldn't work!  But this, combined with
a batch file, would probably easier than having the batch file handle each game
separately.  Sorry for not making that clear. :)

Jeremiah



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