running tournaments under linux

[mridul]

Hi,


Just curious, how do tournaments get run under linux ?
In particular, where there is no X server running (so no xboard possible).


Looking to run gauntlet and round robin to test a few things ....


Thanks,
Mridul

[Dann Corbit]

Hi,


Just curious, how do tournaments get run under linux ?
In particular, where there is no X server running (so no xboard possible).


Looking to run gauntlet and round robin to test a few things ....


Thanks,
Mridul

Here is a perl tournament manager written by Holger Ruckdeschel (of HoiChess fame):
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... manager.7z

I seem to recall that some version of scid has a tournament manager, and it is open source using tcl/tk so I guess it would work on POSIX.

[Dann Corbit]

Hi,


Just curious, how do tournaments get run under linux ?
In particular, where there is no X server running (so no xboard possible).


Looking to run gauntlet and round robin to test a few things ....


Thanks,
Mridul

Here is a perl tournament manager written by Holger Ruckdeschel (of HoiChess fame):
http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... manager.7z

I seem to recall that some version of scid has a tournament manager, and it is open source using tcl/tk so I guess it would work on POSIX.

This is the one with the tournament feature:
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/

[mridul]

If I am not wrong, this still needs xwindows, right ?
I have access to a couple of headless boxes, so no X ...

Thanks,
Mridul

[Dann Corbit]

If I am not wrong, this still needs xwindows, right ?
I have access to a couple of headless boxes, so no X ...

Thanks,
Mridul

The perls script should still work though. No GUI at all.

[mridul]

The second link you provided ( http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/ ) does point to a version of scid which can run tourny's : but requires tcl/tk (and so X).

I am taking a look at the first - which is directly off your site I think.
The homepage for which (http://www.hoicher.de/hoichess/tourney_manager) though is dead unfortunately ...


Thanks for the pointer !

Regards,
Mridul

[mridul]

Unfortunately, it looks like the first link (http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... manager.7z) essentially falls back on xboard to run the actual games : and xboard, mandatoryily, requires X ....
So the requirement of no X dependency is messing things up for me !

Is there anything which might be useful which you can think of ? I was actually surprised that I could not find anything on the web !


Thanks,
Mridul

[mcostalba]

Unfortunately, it looks like the first link (http://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new- ... manager.7z) essentially falls back on xboard to run the actual games : and xboard, mandatoryily, requires X ....
So the requirement of no X dependency is messing things up for me !

Is there anything which might be useful which you can think of ? I was actually surprised that I could not find anything on the web !


Thanks,
Mridul

Try cutechess-cli

[mridul]

cutechess-cli looked very promising, and I could actually run it on my laptop.
Unfortunately, its libqt dependency kind of kills it ... sigh.


Thanks for that, very promising, lead !

Regards,
Mridul

PS: why disable pondering in cutechess-cli ? weird !

[Daniel Shawul]

All you have to do is put the necessary qt cores in the lib folder, libQtCore.so.4 I suppose. I have played thousands of games with it on a linux cluster with no problems. You can also play ponder off with it.
It is the ideal software for your needs.