On-line engine blitz tourney July

[hgm]

Ah, I see. Your engine command is:

C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe D:\SAKK\tomitankChess\js\tomitankChess.js

Notice the space between 'Program' and 'Files'. So Polyglot tries to run

C:\Program

with as arguments 'Files\nodejs\node.exe' and 'D:\SAKK\tomitankChess\js\tomitankChess.js'

And of course this fails, as there is no C:\Program.exe. That this command might work in the Windows command prompt is a special property of the command interpreter there, which makes several tries, taking subsequently more spaces as part of the exe name. The Windows API command CreateProcess used by Polyglot does not automatically do that, though.

You will have to group the words in the command more clearly by quoting. Like

-fcp '"C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" D:\SAKK\tomitankChess\js\tomitankChess.js'

The outer single quotes are then 'used up' by WinBoard, to make it understand the whole thing is the engine command. And the double quotes then delimit the executable, despite it consisting of multiple words.

[tomitank]

Ok, i tried many version:

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"C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "D:\SAKK\tomitankChess\js\tomitankChess.js"

Error: Game not found in file
It is ok?

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'"C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" D:\SAKK\tomitankChess\js\tomitankChess.js'

Error: C:\Program file not found.

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'"C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe D:\SAKK\tomitankChess\js\tomitankChess.js"'

Error: C:\Program file not found.

[AlvaroBegue]

I will be traveling at the time of the tournament, but I will leave RuyDos connected before I leave. Could you please add it? Thanks!

[hgm]

Ok, i tried many version:

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"C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "D:\SAKK\tomitankChess\js\tomitankChess.js"

Error: Game not found in file
It is ok?

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'"C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" D:\SAKK\tomitankChess\js\tomitankChess.js'

Error: C:\Program file not found.

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'"C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe D:\SAKK\tomitankChess\js\tomitankChess.js"'

Error: C:\Program file not found.

The first is certainly wrong, because it makes the node.exe and tomitankChess.js different arguments to WinBoard, only the first associated with the -fcp option, and the second not being preceded by any option name. Such arguments are considered by WinBoard to be game files, which explains the error message.

In the last one the single and double quotes should do exactly the same thing. Which makes it surprising you get a different error than with just the double quotes. Apparently single quotes outside double quotes are not understood.

Try this:

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""C:/Program Files/nodejs/node.exe" D:/SAKK/tomitankChess/js/tomitankChess.js"

where I only use double quotes, but escaped the inner quotes with backslash, so they won't be considered as closing the initial quote.

[tomitank]

I have found a bug!

Thanks for your help!

[Henk]

Maybe also you should not allow to let engines play that were not updated in last few months.

Otherwise there is nothing special about this tournament for one could download forty engines and run a tournament on their own computer.

If we want more spectators than we should broadcast the games live on chess.com or something similar.

Problem is that most engines play too good. So only grandmasters can understand their moves.

[Henk]

Other idea is to give engines with high ratings far and far less time to make them play much worse but broadcast their move with a delay of say five seconds so you won't notice.

[flok]

My biggest issue with making changes to icsdrone(ng) is, is that they're not merged by upstream.

[hgm]

'Upstream' is Michel van den Bergh?

[flok]

All of them.
I cc'd you in in the patch of 16/12/16.