Engine Interface

[FlavusSnow]

I'm looking for some clean, well documented interface C code that can match two engines against eachother without graphics, using the UCI protocol. If it records games in .PGN, its a plus, but no other features are needed.

I have two goals:

1. To reinvent the wheel and write my own, simple, tournament manager
2. To write a middle-man application to enhance deep engine analysis when used with any UCI compatible engine.

[LucenaTheLucid]

This is a simple utility to run many fast games with 2 UCI chess engines. It does not display the games its just a GUI to set up the tournaments. It also records them in PGN format.

http://www.kimiensoftware.com/littletho ... litzer.php

[Onno Garms]

I have written a command line tournament framework for my testing years ago, but I did not release it. I think I can do some code cleanup and release it next weekend if you are interested. As a public release was not planed, there are some hacks in the code, but the program might still be useful.

Features:
- supports Winboard and UCI engines
- reads list of engines from a file
- reads list of openings from a file (not PGN for simplicity of implementation, format is "e2e4 e7e5 g1f3", one opening per line
- plays the first engine against all other engines with all openings and both colors
- fixed nodes per move, so results independent of system load (which is not the case at fixed time; don't ask my why)
- individual node values for each engine
- writes results in a CSV file, one result per line
- writes games in a file, one game per line in the same format like the openings
- when restarted after an interrupt, reads above files to start with the game that was interrupted
- checks moves for legality, is based on Fruit for this feature

[JVMerlino]

I have written a command line tournament framework for my testing years ago, but I did not release it. I think I can do some code cleanup and release it next weekend if you are interested. As a public release was not planed, there are some hacks in the code, but the program might still be useful.

Features:
- supports Winboard and UCI engines
- reads list of engines from a file
- reads list of openings from a file (not PGN for simplicity of implementation, format is "e2e4 e7e5 g1f3", one opening per line
- plays the first engine against all other engines with all openings and both colors
- fixed nodes per move, so results independent of system load (which is not the case at fixed time; don't ask my why)
- individual node values for each engine
- writes results in a CSV file, one result per line
- writes games in a file, one game per line in the same format like the openings
- when restarted after an interrupt, reads above files to start with the game that was interrupted
- checks moves for legality, is based on Fruit for this feature

This all sounds fantastic and I'd love to get a chance to try it. What time controls does it support?

jm

[Onno Garms]

What time controls does it support?

None. It only supports fixed node number. But as I will release the source, you can add whatever you want.

[JVMerlino]

What time controls does it support?

None. It only supports fixed node number. But as I will release the source, you can add whatever you want.

Understood. Thanks very much!

jm

[FlavusSnow]

Sounds great. I would be very interested.

As for LittleBlitzer, I run Linux, so it is not ideal for me. Also, my second goal of making an analysis assistant would not be furthered.

[jacobbl]

LittleBlitzer is exactly the kind of tool I'm looking for, except that it doesn't support winboard engines. Do you have any plan for implementing winboard support, or does anyone know of an alternative which supports winboard?

Regards
Jacob

[tano-urayoan]

What about cutechess-cli ?

[Onno Garms]

Here we go:
http://www.onnochess.com/index.html?ufte.html