Linux (Mac/Windows) Chess Tournament Feature

[stevenaaus]

Just spruiking my project, Scid vs. PC.
A few months ago i added an automated tourney feature.
Quite a few engines work great.. RobboLito, Stockfish, Crafty,
Glaurung, Toga II. Some others need some effort. Gnuchess needs
"-xboard". Time keeping is on a per-move basis, but with
continuous analysis for both xboard and UCI engines I think.

A few engines come pre-configured (the windows version of
Phalanx is buggy, but i have a new version to test out today), and
new engines can be added from tools->analysis_engines. There's
more info in the help menu.

The project is cross-platform, but has a strong TCL dependancy.
Linux and Macs work slightly better than Windows due to a few
bugs in the windows version of TCL.

In my testing (with move periods of 5 seconds, no special CPU
tuning, on a E5200 C2D) , the RobboLito series of engines are just
slightly stronger than Stockfish and Shredder Classic 4 (evaluation version).

[shiv]

I like your scidvspc project. It is a little sad that your changes could not be merged into the mainstream version of scid. Nonetheless, there are plenty of reasons for people to download scidvspc.

I personally would like the "use polyglot book" and "enable book learning" options to be added to the computer tournament feature.

I also recommend that you post this in the general forum as this is a good GUI that can do other things besides computer chess tournaments. I like your improvements to the game list etc.

Congratulations on a great project.