Xboard Tournament Manager?

[Laurens]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Laurens at 20. June 2004 15:19:

Hello everyone,
I'm programming a small chess xboard engine under linux and I want to test it
against some other (xboard) engines. I would like to use some kind of tournament
manager.
I know that several tournament managers are available under windows, but I have
not found a single one that works under linux.
Can anyone direct me to a linux tournament manager? Or, alternatively, can
anyone give me some hints on how to make a script to automate matches between
programs, while gathering the results in a nice output file? Though I'm
perfectly capable of programming chess engines in C, I do not have much
experience using grep and the like.
Thanks for your advice, Laurens.

[Bryan Hofmann]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Bryan Hofmann at 21 June 2004 16:24:09:
Als Antwort auf:/In reply to: Xboard Tournament Manager? geschrieben von:/posted by: Laurens at 20. June 2004 15:19:

Hello everyone,
I'm programming a small chess xboard engine under linux and I want to test it
against some other (xboard) engines. I would like to use some kind of tournament
manager.
I know that several tournament managers are available under windows, but I have
not found a single one that works under linux.
Can anyone direct me to a linux tournament manager? Or, alternatively, can
anyone give me some hints on how to make a script to automate matches between
programs, while gathering the results in a nice output file? Though I'm
perfectly capable of programming chess engines in C, I do not have much
experience using grep and the like.
Thanks for your advice, Laurens.

I have not seen a tourney manager for linux and since you state that your are not experienced with scripting the best solution would be for you to use the below script to run your matches then run SCID against the PGN file to get your stats. You will have to put in the times, number of matches and engines for each one of the rounds.

#!/bin/sh
# -tc -inc -mg
#1st round
xboard -tc 1 -inc 0 -mg 300 -saveGameFile tourney.pgn \
-fcp -fd \
-scp -sd
#2nd round
xboard -tc 1 -inc 0 -mg 300 -saveGameFile tourney.pgn \
-fcp -fd \
-scp -sd