Cutechess-cli 0.5.0 for Linux available

[lucasart]

A nice feature you could add to cutechess-cli is "proto=auto". Some GUIs (like Arena for example) can do this, and detect automatically the protocol.

The implementation would be fairly simple:
- try sending "uci" to the engine
- upon receipt of "uciok" you know the protocol should be UCI, otherwise you can assume it's Xboard.

Also proto=auto could be the default value. So if no proto is specified, cutechess-cli would use proto=auto.

[ilari]

A nice feature you could add to cutechess-cli is "proto=auto". Some GUIs (like Arena for example) can do this, and detect automatically the protocol.

The implementation would be fairly simple:
- try sending "uci" to the engine
- upon receipt of "uciok" you know the protocol should be UCI, otherwise you can assume it's Xboard.

Also proto=auto could be the default value. So if no proto is specified, cutechess-cli would use proto=auto.

I've been thinking about this. The problem is that auto-detection never seems to be completely fail-safe. There's also the fact that libcutechess could easily support more protocols, which would make auto-detection even tougher.

[lucasart]

A nice feature you could add to cutechess-cli is "proto=auto". Some GUIs (like Arena for example) can do this, and detect automatically the protocol.

The implementation would be fairly simple:
- try sending "uci" to the engine
- upon receipt of "uciok" you know the protocol should be UCI, otherwise you can assume it's Xboard.

Also proto=auto could be the default value. So if no proto is specified, cutechess-cli would use proto=auto.

I've been thinking about this. The problem is that auto-detection never seems to be completely fail-safe. There's also the fact that libcutechess could easily support more protocols, which would make auto-detection even tougher.

Well, up to you. It's not really a big deal, just a "nice to have" feature.

I'm currently using cutechess-cli quite intensively to construct my "GPL Blitz list" (cf my post on the Tournament forum). And it's behaving wonderfully well

As for Beowulf, this engine supports both UCI and Xboard. But the UCI support is buggy (as I mentionned earlier). So I'm testing it in Xboard mode and it's fine.