Chesswar will not die!

[rodolfoleoni]

I posted on Winboard forum the idea of continuing Olivier's work as a group, supported by him, which can run the several stages of Chesswar Tournaments.

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewt ... =2&t=52559

Trustworthy people are needed for that work. Olivier would eventually make his choices. Rules must remain the current ones.

Christopher Conkie (and me) are available for that project. Other volunteers are needed. Are you one of them?

Regards,

[JuLieN]

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This thread is about getting volunteers to help Chris and Rodolfo continuing Olivier's ChessWar.
All the demeaning and out-of-topic discussion about clones was moved to EO where people interested in such subjects can continue to discuss them.
In the mean time, please don't spoil Rodolfo's enthusiasm with such topics.
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Thanks a lot for this initiative, Rodolfo! I really hope you and Chris will manage to get ChessWar rebooted! I loved to see my own engine in this tournament, so I guess it was also a big motivation for most engines authors!

[Andres Valverde]

I posted on Winboard forum the idea of continuing Olivier's work as a group, supported by him, which can run the several stages of Chesswar Tournaments.

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewt ... =2&t=52559

Trustworthy people are needed for that work. Olivier would eventually make his choices. Rules must remain the current ones.

Christopher Conkie (and me) are available for that project. Other volunteers are needed. Are you one of them?

Regards,

Of course count me in, I don´t know how can I collaborate though...

[JuLieN]

I posted on Winboard forum the idea of continuing Olivier's work as a group, supported by him, which can run the several stages of Chesswar Tournaments.

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewt ... =2&t=52559

Trustworthy people are needed for that work. Olivier would eventually make his choices. Rules must remain the current ones.

Christopher Conkie (and me) are available for that project. Other volunteers are needed. Are you one of them?

Regards,

Of course count me in, I don´t know how can I collaborate though...

Maybe all us programmers could gather and build a software to automatize ChessWar?

- MD5 identification of engines files
- automatic pairing and ratings computations in real time
- distributing the tournaments over all volunteer's computers automatically (which means that the client software should allow the viewers to switch between all the games that interest them, and maybe have several of them opened in several tabs for example)
- as some engines are in non public beta versions, such engines should be able to be sent encrypted onto a volunteer's computer's memory, where it could be operated from, and never be written on the harddisk.
- there would be a public client, more modern and multi-platforms than TLCV, to watch the tournament and chat.

Just my two cents and a quick brainstorming.

[hgm]

ChessWar has always been a single-machine event. (OK, the promo was on a different machine). So what is the idea now, that it would suddenly require many volunteers to donate computer time? Do we want to change many games in parallel? Do we want to switch the machine where the games are played all the time during the tourney?

Most of what Julien proposes can of course be done by using WinBoard. That can run Swiss tourneys with automatic pairing. Itcan run a tourney distributed over several machines. And apart from interfacing with TLCS/TLCV it interfaces to a browser-based broadcasting system (ChessLive!).

[geots]

I posted on Winboard forum the idea of continuing Olivier's work as a group, supported by him, which can run the several stages of Chesswar Tournaments.

http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewt ... =2&t=52559

Trustworthy people are needed for that work. Olivier would eventually make his choices. Rules must remain the current ones.

Christopher Conkie (and me) are available for that project. Other volunteers are needed. Are you one of them?

Regards,

You been awake all this time? Ck. out Tourn. and Matches section. I got over 210 freeware engines in 14 different groups and 5 or 6 RRs going right now. Copying, typing, posting results, giving links for PGN sets. Who was that you said needed help?

gts