Watch engine vs engine games launched from a cli?

[JohnW]

Hello,

Does anyone know of a chess interface that will allow you to setup an engine vs engine match via a command line AND will also display it as it's being played in a gui? I was playing around with cute chess cli but it doesn't seem to have any kind of switch to display the game in the gui as the game is played. I want to create an application that can create matches via the cli but I also want to watch the games.

Thanks for your help..

[Michel]

Hello,

Does anyone know of a chess interface that will allow you to setup an engine vs engine match via a command line AND will also display it as it's being played in a gui? I was playing around with cute chess cli but it doesn't seem to have any kind of switch to display the game in the gui as the game is played. I want to create an application that can create matches via the cli but I also want to watch the games.

Thanks for your help..

I am not aware of any program that implements this natively, but on Linux a similar effect is quite easy to achieve by directing the output of a GUI program to a virtual frame buffer. Then if one one wants to watch the games, one just connects to the virtual frame buffer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb .

[jshriver]

When I ran OICS, what I did for the web gui was have the engine vs engines matches dump to a pgn file, then have the pgn2web display the pgn and refresh once a second.

Do not know of any GUI's that can do that however but might be a route to go down.

[Colin-G]

In linux, just start an engine-engine match in xboard using the xboard command (with the required options) in a terminal window.
Then just move the terminal window to another desktop to carry on working.
You can then switch between desktops anytime to view the game.

[JohnW]

When I ran OICS, what I did for the web gui was have the engine vs engines matches dump to a pgn file, then have the pgn2web display the pgn and refresh once a second.

Do not know of any GUI's that can do that however but might be a route to go down.

Thanks, that's a good idea. I will take a look at that..

[Modern Times]

Hello,

Does anyone know of a chess interface that will allow you to setup an engine vs engine match via a command line AND will also display it as it's being played in a gui?

Why not use Cutechess GUI ?

[JohnW]

Hello,

Does anyone know of a chess interface that will allow you to setup an engine vs engine match via a command line AND will also display it as it's being played in a gui?

Why not use Cutechess GUI ?

Because as I was saying in my post I want to create an application that will create the matches.