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Analyze a file of EPD positions, producing an analyzed file of EPD for output.

Inputs:
List of EPD files
List of EPD engines
Seconds of analysis time
Abort options

Outputs:
EPD file, decorated with analysis annotations.

Notes:
If mate in N is found at ply 2*N-1, time to stop analysis
IOW, if we have mate in 12 at ply 23, there is no point in analying ply 24.

Equiping WinBoard with EPD capabilities has been on my to-do list some time (but I have been suffering badly from RSI the past month,so not much progress there...).

What I had in mind was to treat EPD mode as a special version of matchMode, where each 'game' by definition lasts only one move, after which it is aborted, and statistics (similar to the W/D/L statistics during a normal march) is collected. This would allow the EPD file to be read through the normal -loadPositionFile option, the normal selection of time controls (or depth limitation) available in winBoard (e.g. -searchTime, -depth), and the saving of results in the -savePositionFile.

What I had _not_ planned on is to allow change of the engine. At least not before I have abolished the startup dialog, and generally made it possible to switch engine during the session, through the menus. (This will require major surgery.) Until then, changing engine will be a task of the tournament manager, and what you want can be done easily by programming a gauntlet in the TM and running it in EPD mode in stead of normal match mode.