Newbie Xboard Question

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hgm
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Re: Newbie Xboard Question

Post by hgm »

Normally it would save over this, but since this is exactly what it would save you would not notice it. This is what then would prevent appearance of the message on later startups.

I suspect that saving in your case is somehow switched off, though. Then XBoard would think every startup is the first one.
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Re: Newbie Xboard Question

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Hi
I want to make automated tournaments using command lines, which is faster.

I made the following command line for winboard, this starts my custom engine designed for my chess variant on winboard and plays a 10 games match. The time control is very rapid.

What i want is to add some options, like downloading a FEN file containing start positions and make the engines play each other 4 times the same position alternating colors (which means 2 times with white and 2 with black).

The use of depth to 10 doesn't help to have quality games, how to setup matches using for example 40 moves in 25 min + 5 seconds increment, then 10 minutes until the game finishes?

Which command lines i have to add for the following code?
Thanks

@echo off
chcp 65001 >nul

:: ================= CONFIGURATION =================
set "WBDIR=C:\Users\User\Downloads\WinBoard-AA\WinBoard - Duck\WinBoard"

:: Moteur 1
set "COMMAND_LINE1=C:\Users\User\Downloads\WinBoard-AA\Engines\MStockfish\stockfish.exe load .\variants.ini#musketeer11"

:: Moteur 2 (Clone)
set "COMMAND_LINE2=C:\Users\User\Downloads\WinBoard-AA\Engines\MStockfish2\stockfish.exe load .\variants.ini#musketeer11"

:: Nombre de parties
set "MATCH_GAMES=10"

:: ================================================

cd /d "%WBDIR%"

start winboard.exe -debug ^
-variant musketeer ^
-mg %MATCH_GAMES% ^
-fcp "%COMMAND_LINE1%" -fd "." -fn "Musketeer 1" ^
-scp "%COMMAND_LINE2%" -sd "." -sn "Musketeer 2" ^
-cp ^
/materialDraws true ^
/trivialDraws true ^
/depth 10

echo
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