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I would like to run a tournament between 2 UCI engines in Xboard on my Mac. I know there is a tournament manager in Winboard and I expected the menu mode 2 machines to provide the same facility via the command line terminal.

When I try this mode I get a fatal error message saying that it cann't find the second engine. This will happen even when I specify -spc the same as -fpc (playing the engine against itself). There are no problems playing with a single engine.

Is there a PSWBTM version for Xboard available ?

imai wrote:I would like to run a tournament between 2 UCI engines in Xboard on my Mac. I know there is a tournament manager in Winboard and I expected the menu mode 2 machines to provide the same facility via the command line terminal.

When I try this mode I get a fatal error message saying that it cann't find the second engine. This will happen even when I specify -spc the same as -fpc (playing the engine against itself). There are no problems playing with a single engine.

Is there a PSWBTM version for Xboard available ?

Are you sure you tried 'fpc' and 'spc' instead of fcp and scp?

Guenther,
It was a typo I used -fcp and -scp.

The first part of the code to start Xboard is working as expected but when I duplicate the arguments for -scp I get error messages.

This is the code I used:

./xboard -fd /chess/xboard/polyglot -sameColorGames 5 -fcp "./polyglot stockfish.ini" -size 80,1,12,0,12,1 -coords -movesound -highlight -clock -xponder -thinking -smpCores 2 -defaultHashSize 512 -fNoOwnBookUCI -defaultPathEGTB "../bases/Nalimov/" -usePolyglotBook true -polyglotBook /chess/xboard/books/book.bin -scp "./polyglot stockfish.ini" -size 80,1,12,0,12,1 -coords -movesound -highlight -clock -xponder -thinking -smpCores 2 -defaultHashSize 512 -fNoOwnBookUCI -defaultPathEGTB "../bases/Nalimov/" -usePolyglotBook true -polyglotBook /chess/xboard/books/book.bin

What is wrong ?

Teun

PROBLEM SOLVED with thanks to Schlucke for his help.

I forgot to include the option -sd for the second engine.

This is the code I use now:

./xboard -mm -sameColorGames 10 -fd /chess/xboard/polyglot -fcp "./polyglot stockfish_14.ini" -sd /chess/xboard/polyglot -scp "./polyglot stockfish.ini" -size 80,1,12,0,12,1 -coords -movesound -highlight -clock -xponder -thinking -smpCores 2 -defaultHashSize 512 -fNoOwnBookUCI -defaultPathEGTB "../bases/Nalimov/" -usePolyglotBook true -polyglotBook /chess/xboard/books/book.bin -saveGameFile "../pgn/xb-match.pgn" -pgnExtendedInfo true -trivialDraws true