New Idea for a GUI

[swami]

"The EPD Tournament mode"

Option to load multiple 1cpu engines (could be upto 3 engines), and let them solve the position simultaneously.

Keep _live_record of scores for each engines

and update the scores after each positions/epds etc and display them in table.

This would be useful only in >=4 cores computers.

[hgm]

What would be the advantage of simply running the tests in parallel in different instances of the GUI. I don't see any added value to have one instance handle multiple engines. Just needless complication, for both the GUI and the user.

[rvida]

"The EPD Tournament mode"

Option to load multiple 1cpu engines (could be upto 3 engines), and let them solve the position simultaneously.

And get distorted results due to engines fighting for L2/L3 cache space

Richard

[Nimzovik]

I liked the Idea Swami. A certain convenieance there... Perhpas in the future processors would not have to fight for cache space.

[Matthias Gemuh]

I liked the Idea Swami. A certain convenieance there... Perhpas in the future processors would not have to fight for cache space.

Processors will always fight for cache space, because spitting it up is simply worse when using only one of several processors.

[LaurenceChen]

How about a GUI which will allow engine matches in 2 PCs through LAN instead of the serial Auto232? Auto232 serial connection is so jaded that new PCs and laptops don't have a serial port.

[hgm]

WinBoard allows you to run engines on a remote machine...