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New WinBoard gimmick
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H.G.Muller



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PostPost subject: Re: New WinBoard gimmick    Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:07 pm Reply to topic Reply with quote
SzG wrote:
It seems to me the grouping has merit separating engines playing different variations. Otherwise I can't see a particular benefit; whenever I install a new engine I put it in its aphabetical place.


Indeed, what organization is best depends a lot of on what you typically use WinBoard for. But even for doing engine tourneys in a single variant I see several applications:

For instance, you could group by rating classes, and within each class group alphabetically. Because it would probably be a waste of time to play engines against each other that differ by more than 500 Elo. So you could make classes 2000-2200, 2200-2400, 2400-2600, and then pull the engines for a tourney from two neigboring classes (or even a single one).

Another application would be if you have many old versions or tuned versions of the same engine. You could then condense the list, so you would not have to do excessive scrolling to traverse it, by collapsing all versions of the same engine to a single group.

Not everyone does only engine tourneys; as engine author I have an excessively large number of versions around of Joker, Spartacus nd micro-Max, which clutter my list of opponents for them in gauntlets. So I would group all Spartacus versions in a # Spartacus group. Then it becomes much easier to select opponents for it.
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New WinBoard gimmick H.G.Muller Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:14 pm
      Re: New WinBoard gimmick H.G.Muller Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:49 pm
            Re: New WinBoard gimmick Julien MARCEL Thu Feb 09, 2012 2:54 pm
                  Re: New WinBoard gimmick H.G.Muller Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:09 pm
      Re: New WinBoard gimmick Giorgio Medeot Thu Feb 09, 2012 4:38 pm
            Re: New WinBoard gimmick H.G.Muller Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:09 pm
      Re: New WinBoard gimmick Gabor Szots Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:38 pm
            Re: New WinBoard gimmick Roger Brown Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:46 pm
                  Re: New WinBoard gimmick Gabor Szots Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:12 pm
                        Re: New WinBoard gimmick Julien MARCEL Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:18 pm
            Re: New WinBoard gimmick H.G.Muller Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:07 pm
      Re: New WinBoard gimmick H.G.Muller Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:09 pm
      Re: New WinBoard gimmick H.G.Muller Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:24 pm
      Re: New WinBoard gimmick H.G.Muller Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:28 am
      Re: New WinBoard gimmick Roger Brown Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:27 am
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