command line engine match?

[zenpawn]

Is there a command line program (or some switch I'm missing in winboard) to have two winboard (or UCI) engines run against each other and report the result?

I tried /fcp and /scp with winboard, but that just brings up the GUI and waits on a human to start the game.

I'm asking as I'd like to try CLOP tuning.

Thanks,
-Erin

[brianr]

CLOP has its own GUI and it runs just fine (but takes a very long time)

If you actually want to use Winboard, see the 'noGUI' option

[zenpawn]

CLOP has its own GUI and it runs just fine (but takes a very long time)

I did see that, but I thought it was just showing the results, that you still needed to implement a program to return W, L, or D. You're saying there's a way to inform this GUI about the engines to run a game?

If you actually want to use Winboard, see the 'noGUI' option

Will check that out. Thanks.

[Evert]

Is there a command line program (or some switch I'm missing in winboard) to have two winboard (or UCI) engines run against each other and report the result?

I tried /fcp and /scp with winboard, but that just brings up the GUI and waits on a human to start the game.

I'm asking as I'd like to try CLOP tuning.

You want the "-mg X" option, which plays X games and reports the results.
There's also cutechess-cli.

[zenpawn]

You want the "-mg X" option, which plays X games and reports the results.
There's also cutechess-cli.

Thanks. So, for this application, I would use -mg 1 and -noGUI (which just minimizes it). Unfortunately, the result is reported via a dialog window rather than stdout.

[jdart]

If you add -cp to the command line it will skip the initial mode dialog. But if I remember right CLOP xomes with a sample python script to run matches and I thougjt that used cutechess-cli.

However, I don't recommend CLOP for tuning. I have had pooe results from it and it can take a long time to converge.

--Jon

[Guenther]

You want the "-mg X" option, which plays X games and reports the results.
There's also cutechess-cli.

Thanks. So, for this application, I would use -mg 1 and -noGUI (which just minimizes it). Unfortunately, the result is reported via a dialog window rather than stdout.

I would use a batch file and add a line which lets hgtblb spit out a result table each x games and let it open by an editor.
I did similar things since long, but I did not add the line for the result in the game batch directly,
but instead created another batch which I just executed when I wanted to see the current result/standing.

Hgtblb is an util which creates 2 files from reading a pgn file.
A 's' and a 'x' file (appended to a text file named the same as the given pgn file.)
One contains a table and a few stats and the other all results. This is also from HGM and delivered with WB IIRC.

Example with my editor: (with the joker '*' it opens both new files)

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hgtblb XYZ.pgn
start c:\ultraedit\uedit32.exe "XYZ*.txt"
exit

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    name                       perc.  pnt games  Buchh    S-B

 1. Matilde_261                 56%  78.5 /140  (8610.0, 4827.8)
 2. Pigeon_136-64               44%  61.5 /140  (10990.0, 4827.8)

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Cross table, sorted by score percentage, Buchholz, SB

                              Matilde_261        Pigeon_136-64     
                              ################## 110=101111111100=0
                              ################## 0==10=1==1==00=01=
                              ################## =011011=00101=0010
 1. Matilde_261               ################## ==0==1111==1111111
                              ################## 01011110=010011=11
                              ################## =010011=11000=1011
                              ################## 01=1=0==101=011010
                              ################## 01=001=00010=1       56%  78.5 (8610.0, 4827.8)

                              001=010000000011=1 ##################
                              1==01=0==0==11=10= ##################
                              =100100=11010=1101 ##################
 2. Pigeon_136-64             ==1==0000==0000000 ##################
                              10100001=101100=00 ##################
                              =101100=00111=0100 ##################
                              10=0=1==010=100101 ##################
                              10=110=11101=0     ##################   44%  61.5 (10990.0, 4827.8)

[zenpawn]

I would use a batch file and add a line which lets hgtblb spit out a result table each x games and let it open by an editor.

Definitely planning a batch file, just need a way to launch the game and gather the result to return a simple W, L, D for CLOP. Are you using cutechess-cli to kick off the games as recommended by Jon Dart?

[zenpawn]

If you add -cp to the command line it will skip the initial mode dialog. But if I remember right CLOP xomes with a sample python script to run matches and I thougjt that used cutechess-cli.

It comes with an example script, but I'm not seeing where it actually causes a game to be played.

However, I don't recommend CLOP for tuning. I have had pooe results from it and it can take a long time to converge.

Thanks, I've read similar and have been quietly rooting on the Python script attempts at genericizing Texel tuning for any engine: http://talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61856

[Guenther]

I would use a batch file and add a line which lets hgtblb spit out a result table each x games and let it open by an editor.

Definitely planning a batch file, just need a way to launch the game and gather the result to return a simple W, L, D for CLOP. Are you using cutechess-cli to kick off the games as recommended by Jon Dart?

I did not see the clop part because I answered to something later in this thread about WB, but for clop it seems there are already scripts and those all assume cutechess-cli.