Xboard tourney manager for Linux

[Holger Ruckdeschel]

Hello everybody!

My favourite working and developing platform is Linux. However, there is
(to my knowledge) no program that automatically runs a complete chess engine
tournament, like WBTM. So I wrote my own, simple tourney manager, basically
to test my chess engine HoiChess. Now I decided to make it available to the
public. The current version can be downloaded at:

http://www.hoicher.de/hoichess/tourney_manager

The tourney manager is written in Perl, and consits of two Perl scripts, which are discribed in the README file that is included in the package.
There is no further documentation at the moment. I will add more documentation if there is enough feedback.

If you have any questions or problems, feel free to ask me.

[Kunnar Klauks]

Hi,

Nice to hear that somebody runs computer chess tournaments in linux, as i do

In fact, i did also xboard/winboard tournament manager, but it is not public (yet). My tournament manager is made in java, currently it supports matches, round robin tournaments, and round robin match tournaments. Pairings and color selection are correct like in real tournaments. Full graphical interface is also ready, GUI is made using SWT widgets (like Eclipse IDE, azureus, rssowl etc.) to match closely native look and feel. Tournaments can be run, stop, continue, save to disk, and load from disk.

Since my tournament manager is made in java, it works also in other platforms. I have tested it with linux/xboard and windows/winboard and it works in both OS. I suppose it works in mac as well (xboard is already ported to Max OS X) , but unfortunately i dont have mac and cant test it there.

I plan to add other tournament formats, like swiss tournament, knockout, simul etc., and maybe in next year i make it available to the public. But its usable already now. I dont know how much interest there is to run computer chess tournaments in mac and linux, but if somebody is interested testing my tournament manager then let me know, i may privately send program and source code (if interested) to you.

Kunnar