Apparently cutechess-cli only waits 10 seconds for an engine to load but loading Scorpio neural networks may take upto 30 seconds.
It is not a problem for winboard if an engine takes an hour to initialize because the winboard protocol says this
The xboard protocol provides a way to counter this by doing:done (integer, no default)
If you set done=1 during the initial two-second timeout after xboard sends you the "xboard" command, the timeout will end and xboard will not look for any more feature commands before starting normal operation. If you set done=0, the initial timeout is increased to one hour; in this case, you must set done=1 before xboard will enter normal operation.
"feature done 0" ... then time-taking operation ... "feature done 1"
So the engine can take upto 1 hour initializing its stuff and there shouldn't be a problem.
I implemented that and expect it to work in every GUI but i guess cutechess-cli just resumes normal operation after waiting only 10 seconds....
I am fine with scorpio getting out of the tournament due to its hangs but it should not be alluded that the cause of the tournament being restarted
is scoprio especially when i did things the rightway and their GUI (cutechess-cli) happens not to implement winboard correctly.
Daniel