This is a beta version of a tool that allows you play engine/engine matches on a single computer.
We have choosing to create a separate ligth weight tool to give maximum power to the engines under test.
With this tool you can play any pair of ChessPartner / Rebel Tiger supported engine togheter. In this version only two engines can be selected, in later versions automatic tournaments may be played.
Installation:
Just copy the files from the ZIP file to the directory where you have installed ChessPartner or Rebel Tiger.
Usage:
From the engines menu select 'Add Engine' to add engines to the engines list, max 2 engines.
Then from the 'Options' menu select Level to the desired timecontrols.
Select Match parameters to select number of rounds, PGN file, Log file, html output, etc.
From the Match menu select Go to start the match.
It is now possible to play nunn matches, to do this select the nunn.pgn file in the Start position field of the Match parameters dialog.
Be sure to specify the number of rounds to be a multiple of 2 times the number of games in the nunn.pgn file. (10 games).
You can use any EPD or PGN file to use as start position.
Using html output: To generate html output, in the match parametes dialog select a directory where the html output must be stored. This can be a network drive, e.g. \\myserver\myshare\inetpub\wwwroot\ert
In this directory a index.htm is created for the crosstable, and game001.htm, game002.htm etc. for the games are created.
To give some control of the output have a look at the index.thtm and game.thtm files. This files are used as template to control the output. The index.thtm is used to create the index.htm file and the
games.thtm for the games.
The format is exactly what is output in the body of the html. In addition the following keywords are recognised:
$TITLE$ - The match title.
$EVENT$ - The event string.
$SITE$ - The site.
$INDEX$ - Outputs match overview and level.
$SCORETABLE$ - Outputs the scores table.
$GAMEINDEX$ - Links the the individual games.
$PGN$ - Outputs the current games pgn.
$PGNFILE$ - Outputs PGN into a file called gamennn.pgn, where nnn is the current game number.
$PGNFILENAME$ - Outputs name of currents game PGN file, use in combination with $PGNFILE$
$BOARD$ - Output board image of current posisition ... NOT IMPLEMENTED !!
$FEN$ - Outputs FEN string for current position. ... NOT IMPLEMENTED !!!
Remember, this is a beta version and as such most likely has bugs and many features are still missing.
Updates in beta 0.6c:
- Added extra column; number of games played.
- Fixed calculation bug in %win column.
- Fixed bug in level display.
- Fixed bug in matescore display.
Updates in beta 0.6b:
- Fixed a problem where a engine with a specific bug could potentially cause a checkmate score to be counted for the wrong site.
- Fixed spelling error in "Stalemate".
Updates in beta6:
- Added option to score games with more then max moves as a draw.
- Fixed display bug when using large system font.
- Passes the clocks to the engine before letting it compute a move. This to avoid losses on time.
Updates in beta5:
- Some bug fixes
- Delete engine function now works.
- Option to disable use of book (does not work for winboard engines).
- Option to play nunn matches, or from any other PGN/EPD file.
- On dual CPU systems pondering is allowed.
- Html output, this allows you to directly have you matches life on the internet.
Updates in beta4:
- Added a board display to follow the matches.
- Again better game end detection for winboard engines.
- Added URL's on the help menu.
- Engines now properly unloaded at exit of program.
- Added extra 5 seconds delay after loading engine and newgame, this to give the engines som e time to initialize before starting the clocks.
- After checkmate, the last move was not always saved in the PGN file.
- Some cosmetic changes in displaying log data and in the logfile.
- Removed the extra {} in the PGN end of game comment.
- Added Score column in results display.
Updates in beta3:
- Detect winboard engine resign.
- Detect winboard draws.
- Fixed problem with parameters in EnginePath in engineext.ini.
- Record timestamp in logfile.
- Added 200 mS Operator time per move in autoflag.
- Scores recorded in fractions of a pawn.
- Mate in n values decoded.
- Show timecontrol in PGN header.
- Show version info in PGN and logfile.
New in beta 2:
- Fixed reverse recording of mate score.
- Fixed reversal of depth and time in logfile.
- Added clocks and autoflag option.
- Context menu in engines list.
- Match can now be properly saved.
- List registered winboard engines.
- Option to record scores and variations in PGN.
- Better end of game detection.
- Added game timeout option.
- Fixed various other bugs.
- Added some toolbar buttons.
Known problems:
- Sometimes crashes during exit.
- I have seen some winboard engines not exiting.
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