Chess tournament software

[jshriver]

Wonderful breakdown, ty. I did notice 2 glitches on my Ubuntu 9.04 system. I had to remove use strict from parsers/genstruct.pl

And parsers/parser.c gave me an odd error when trying to compile with the normal 4.3.3

However if you do configure, then manually edit the Makefile and use gcc-4.1 it compiles fine.

-Josh

[garybelton]

Actually your ICS idea turned out to be just right. But I didn't end up using mamer though. I installed Linux in a virtualbox along with the ICS from your site. Then created lots of users to run single core engines. I used batch files and all the winboards start at once and match their opponents from ini file. Then I used the zippygameend arg to rematch, this initially caused a problem as the opponent was busy, but I made the rematch command match two engines, and it's assured that one is never busy. The very best feature of it is when you kill all the winboards to get the games played and update your book from them, the games in progress are adjourned and continued on the next run, which is very useful for LTC games, I am playing 90+1 and don't want to lose games, so it's better than cutechess-cli in that respect. Also playing LTC single core games is much more efficient for book making purposes than playing shorter games with MP engines, due to scaling not being 100% efficient. So thanks for the idea. Current battle on my ICS:

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  1 1697 rybkah      1754 rybkaf     [ sr 90   1] 1:23:07 -1:30:15 (37-37) W: 18
  2 1742 rybkai      1712 rybkaj     [ sr 90   1]  37:27 - 25:49 (15-15) B: 67
  3 1694 rybkaa      1761 rybka      [ sr 90   1]  39:51 - 23:00 (26-25) W: 53
  4 1781 rybkac      1723 rybkae     [ sr 90   1] 1:06:00 -1:14:22 (36-36) B: 23
  5 1784 rybkam      1778 rybkal     [ sr 90   1]  32:03 - 31:22 ( 8- 8) B: 59

  5 games displayed.