Author: Andreas Guettinger
Date: 10:18:36 12/05/05
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On December 05, 2005 at 07:54:03, Martin Andersen2 wrote: >I was wondering if it's possible to play >engine vs engine (ponder off) in Linux. >It should be automatic and the games written to pgn. > >I have looked at jose 1.4, but it doesn't seem to have this feature. >Maybe xboard, although no UCI engine support there, and I would like >to test Toga II, Rybka and Fruit. > >Martin. Another possibility (maybe not so flexible as Alessandros) is via alias. I added the following line to my .bashrc: alias match1='xboard -tc 60 -inc 10 -thinking -xponder -xbuttons -mg 4 -sgf match.pgn' - tc 60 means 60 min per game - inc 10 means 10s increment per move (if you done't want put -inc 0 or -mps XX) - mps 40 (would means 40 moves per session) - thinking (show PV while thinking) - xponder (don't think during opponents move) - mg 4 (play 4 games per match) - sgf match.pgn (save games as pgn in match.pgn) ... these are only the most important options then when starting the match you just have to specify path and engine. For xboard engines: match1 -fd firstDir -fcp EngineA -sd secondDir -scp EngineB or for uci engines: match1 -fd polyglotDir -fcp 'polyglot engineA.ini' -sd polyglotDir -scp 'polyglot engineB.ini' As another possibility you can put allmost all xboard options in the .Xresources file (see manpage of xboard), e.g.: ! xboard resources xboard*timeControl: 60 xboard*timeIncrement: 10 xboard*ponderNextMove: false xboard*matchGames: 10 xboard*saveGameFile: match.pgn xboard*showButtonBar: false xboard*showThinking: true xboard*autoCallFlag: true xboard*internetChessServerHost: chessclub.com xboard*colorizeMessages: true xboard*boardSize: Average xboard*titleInWindow: true xboard*highlightLastMove: true xboard*whitePieceColor: #ffffff xboard*blackPieceColor: #1d1d1d xboard*lightSquareColor: #ccbda4 xboard*darkSquareColor: #a88964 xboard*internetChessServerInputBox: true Don't forget to reload the .Xresources after changing them with: xrdb -load .Xresources regards Andy
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