BubbaTough wrote:I want to see all the UCI traffic.
Are there easy to follow instructions for a dumb manager type (as opposed to a super-star unix programmer)?
Cutechess-cli is an industry standard tool for playing matches (such as for param tuning). It needs little UNIX mumbo-jumbo, and has a handy option [-debug] that shows UCI messaging.
On a Mac you invoke it with cutechess-cli.sh.
micron wrote:The old Xboard for Mac installer had so many problems... Here's another that I just noticed. The timestamp utility won't run on MacOS X 10.7:
Overall, a *much* better experience than v4.5.2 with its bizarre permissions problems. There's is one small bug. At each startup, an error box announces
micron wrote:There's a new version? Ah, got it: Xboard 4.5.3
Overall, a *much* better experience than v4.5.2 with its bizarre permissions problems. There's is one small bug. At each startup, an error box announces
Indeed, after you reported the permission problem I asked DarkLord to fix it. I will report this to him too.
Note that I consider all 4.5.x versions nowadays as highly obsolete, and would recommend use of the development version (which can be released as 4.6.0 any time now).
BubbaTough wrote:I want to see all the UCI traffic.
Are there easy to follow instructions for a dumb manager type (as opposed to a super-star unix programmer)?
Cutechess-cli is an industry standard tool for playing matches (such as for param tuning). It needs little UNIX mumbo-jumbo, and has a handy option [-debug] that shows UCI messaging.
On a Mac you invoke it with cutechess-cli.sh.
This is very interesting; I have an almost identical tool called 'cute' that does pretty much the same thing. The name cute came from 'Chimp UCI Test Environment' when I was developing the ill-fated Chimp engine. My tool even logs UCI engine traffic in much the same way i.e. "<engine ..." and ">engine ...". It's amazing how such similarly named and similarly functioning projects have kept on the same path for so long.
If the OP is interested I can supply a Mac binary for cute, however it looks to me like the publically available cutechess-cli will perform much the same functionality and is almost certainly better supported (given it's actually been released)
BubbaTough wrote:I want to see all the UCI traffic.
Are there easy to follow instructions for a dumb manager type (as opposed to a super-star unix programmer)?
Cutechess-cli is an industry standard tool for playing matches (such as for param tuning). It needs little UNIX mumbo-jumbo, and has a handy option [-debug] that shows UCI messaging.
On a Mac you invoke it with cutechess-cli.sh.
I used cute_chess on windows, and your suggestion is really good (much better than what I am doing now). I will still like something where I can play my own moves (and set the fen, and go back and forth in a game via gui, perhaps even test ponder someday). If memory serves, cute_chess is really just for engine vs. engine matches.
trojanfoe wrote:
That is awesome. Are those chess pieces available in all Mac fonts?
Not a straight answer, but they are part of the standard Unicode range.
The pieces are in Menlo, but not in the other fixed-width fonts (Monaco, Courier, Courier New and Andale Mono).
I have Monaco set as my terminal font and I can get the pieces to display in my terminal.
Not sure if that means that it's doing some kind of font substitution, but regardless: they do work.