Random colors in cute-chess singe round tournament

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Pvt. Ryan
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Random colors in cute-chess singe round tournament

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Hi. I've noticed that in single-round tournament, one engine gets all White. Is there a parameter to randomize colors so that white/black assignments are evenly distributed? Thanks.
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Re: Random colors in cute-chess singe round tournament

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Which version did you use?
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Re: Random colors in cute-chess singe round tournament

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Ferdy wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2026 3:59 pm Which version did you use?
Hi Ferdy. I'm using v1.4.0
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Re: Random colors in cute-chess singe round tournament

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I've never seen this happen.
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Re: Random colors in cute-chess singe round tournament

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I ran a quick test, and the first engine always had White.

"cc.exe -engine conf="Deep Junior Yokohama" -engine conf="Zappa Mexico II" -engine conf="Deep Sjeng 3.0" -engine conf="Spike 1.4.1" -engine conf="HIARCS 14 WCSC w32" -engine conf="Hannibal 1.7" -engine conf="Deep Onno 1.2.70" -engine conf="Spark 1.0" -games 1 -rounds 1 ..."