Cute chess problem

[Rebel]

I am having the following epd set called handicap.epd

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rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - id minus Ng8;
r1bqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - id minus Nc6;
rnbqk1nr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - id minus Bf8;
rn1qkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - id minus Bc8;

I run it with:

cutechess-cli -concurrency 4 -tournament gauntlet -engine name=Ethereal_12 cmd=Ethereal_12.exe proto=uci -engine name=SF11 cmd=sf11.exe proto=uci -each restart=on tc=40/15 timemargin=90000 -draw movenumber=160 movecount=3 score=100 -resign movecount=5 score=999 -rounds 4 -pgnout handicp.pgn -openings file=handicap.epd format=epd

I get:

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Started game 1 of 4 (Ethereal_12 vs SF11)
Started game 2 of 4 (SF11 vs Ethereal_12)
Started game 3 of 4 (Ethereal_12 vs SF11)
Started game 4 of 4 (SF11 vs Ethereal_12)

That's not what I want, what I want is that Ethereal has always white.

Is it possible?

I am using version 0.8.2

[Jesse Gersenson]

Yes, it's possible. see ./cutechess-cli --help

-noswap Do not swap sides of paired engines

[Raphexon]

Jesse already answered but this link might still come in handy:

https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess/ ... c/help.txt

[Rebel]

Yes, it's possible. see ./cutechess-cli --help

-noswap Do not swap sides of paired engines

Keeps being refused by cute, even in the latests 1.0 version.

cutechess-cli -concurrency 4 -engine name=Ethereal_12 cmd=Ethereal_12.exe proto=uci -engine name=SF11 cmd=sf11.exe proto=uci -noswap -each restart=on tc=40/15 timemargin=90000 -draw movenumber=160 movecount=3 score=100 -resign movecount=5 score=999 -rounds 10 -pgnout all.pgn -openings file=handicap.epd format=epd

Warning: Unknown option: "-noswap"

Also not in --help nor in the docu.

[Ferdy]

Yes, it's possible. see ./cutechess-cli --help

-noswap Do not swap sides of paired engines

Keeps being refused by cute, even in the latests 1.0 version.

cutechess-cli -concurrency 4 -engine name=Ethereal_12 cmd=Ethereal_12.exe proto=uci -engine name=SF11 cmd=sf11.exe proto=uci -noswap -each restart=on tc=40/15 timemargin=90000 -draw movenumber=160 movecount=3 score=100 -resign movecount=5 score=999 -rounds 10 -pgnout all.pgn -openings file=handicap.epd format=epd

Warning: Unknown option: "-noswap"

Also not in --help nor in the docu.

Try the newer compilation at https://github.com/fsmosca/cutechess/releases

[Ferdy]

I am having the following epd set called handicap.epd

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rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - id minus Ng8;
r1bqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - id minus Nc6;
rnbqk1nr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - id minus Bf8;
rn1qkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - id minus Bc8;

Be careful with this epd format.
The first one should have been

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rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - id "minus Ng8";

If cutechess can handle it then fine.

[Rebel]

Yes, it's possible. see ./cutechess-cli --help

-noswap Do not swap sides of paired engines

Keeps being refused by cute, even in the latests 1.0 version.

cutechess-cli -concurrency 4 -engine name=Ethereal_12 cmd=Ethereal_12.exe proto=uci -engine name=SF11 cmd=sf11.exe proto=uci -noswap -each restart=on tc=40/15 timemargin=90000 -draw movenumber=160 movecount=3 score=100 -resign movecount=5 score=999 -rounds 10 -pgnout all.pgn -openings file=handicap.epd format=epd

Warning: Unknown option: "-noswap"

Also not in --help nor in the docu.

Try the newer compilation at https://github.com/fsmosca/cutechess/releases

Started game 1 of 10 (Ethereal_12 vs SF11)
Started game 2 of 10 (Ethereal_12 vs SF11)
Started game 3 of 10 (Ethereal_12 vs SF11)
Started game 4 of 10 (Ethereal_12 vs SF11)

Works (!!)