On-line engine blitz tourney December

[Joost Buijs]

The monthly on-line engine blitz tourney for December will take place on:

Saturday December 3, 2:00 PM EST (Boston time), 20:00 CET (Amsterdam time)

To connect:

winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp ENGINE.exe -fd ENGINEFOLDER -autoKibitz -keepAlive 30

(for UCI engines, add -fUCI)

People without account can submit a request for an account to admin@nightmare-chess.nl

Our tournament manager will be: Eendje (Lisebeth at ICC)

The format will be: 9 rounds Swiss 5/1

Lisebeth likes to start the tournament on top of the hour, please try to be on-line 15 minutes prior to tournament start, late joins are not supported.

[flok]

Dog 1.0 will participate!

[Joost Buijs]

Dog 1.0 will participate!

Hi Folkert, I will tell Lisebeth to add Dog this time.
Succes vanavond!

[flok]

Dog 1.0 will participate!

Hi Folkert, I will tell Lisebeth to add Dog this time.
Succes vanavond!

No sorry I meant DogPC!

[Joost Buijs]

Dog 1.0 will participate!

Hi Folkert, I will tell Lisebeth to add Dog this time.
Succes vanavond!

No sorry I meant DogPC!

Ok, no problem, so it will be DogPC instead of Dog.

[Henk]

I can't connect anymore.

I use this to run skipper on my machine
"Skipper 14" -fcp SkipperConsoleApp2 -fd "C:\Users\van en belt\source\repos\ChessLibraryCore\SkipperConsoleApp2\bin\Release\net6.0"

On my old machine this used to work:

cd C:\WinBoard-4.8.0\WinBoard
winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp "dotnet C:\Users\Gebruiker\source\repos\ChessLibraryCore\SkipperConsoleApp2\bin\Release\net5.0\SkipperConsoleApp2.dll" -autoKibitz

So on my new machine this should be:

cd C:\WinBoard-4.8.0\WinBoard
winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp "dotnet C:\Users\van en belt\source\repos\ChessLibraryCore\SkipperConsoleApp2\bin\Release\net6.0\SkipperConsoleApp2.dll” -autoKibitz

But it gives an error. So what to do?

[flok]

I can't connect anymore.

I use this to run skipper on my machine
"Skipper 14" -fcp SkipperConsoleApp2 -fd "C:\Users\van en belt\source\repos\ChessLibraryCore\SkipperConsoleApp2\bin\Release\net6.0"

On my old machine this used to work:

cd C:\WinBoard-4.8.0\WinBoard
winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp "dotnet C:\Users\Gebruiker\source\repos\ChessLibraryCore\SkipperConsoleApp2\bin\Release\net5.0\SkipperConsoleApp2.dll" -autoKibitz

So on my new machine this should be:

cd C:\WinBoard-4.8.0\WinBoard
winboard -zp -ics -icshost nightmare-chess.nl -icshelper timeseal -fcp "dotnet C:\Users\van en belt\source\repos\ChessLibraryCore\SkipperConsoleApp2\bin\Release\net6.0\SkipperConsoleApp2.dll” -autoKibitz

But it gives an error. So what to do?

WHAT error

[Henk]

first chess program [dotnet ....] exited unexpectedly

[flok]

first chess program [dotnet ....] exited unexpectedly

Does it speak xboard? Try running it directly from cmd.exe.

[Henk]

already using cmd,exe
Maybe it has no privileges. Just guessing
So I now started a powershell with administrators rights but giving same error

Only difference when using powershell is that I have to use .\winboard
otherwise it even can't find winboard