Be there about 15 min in advance, so we can start in time. And please try to play a few test quickies during those 15 min, so that we can be sure every engine will start playing without a hitch.
should do it for WinBoard engines; add an extra -fUCI for UCI engines.
It would be great if you could use the WinBoard development version that comes with the installer at http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-ICS.exe , (a small install targeting ICS users), so it can get thoroughly tested before it will be released as WinBoard 4.5.0.
I will be there with my new engine. (Which currently barely beats micro-Max, so don't let it deter you!)
If nothing goes wrong, it would even be enough if it is simply logged in. I can instruct mamer to add it to the tourney, even if no one is there to type "mam join 1", and then mamer will start the games remotely. But last time you proposed this, Jabba was not logged in when the tourney started.
Is this your own ICS server and a copy of mamer? If so do you have the source handy would be interested in running my own local ics w/ mamer for tourneys for fun might make a fun way to let multiple machines go at it with each other.
I run linux at home, but have an XP vm.
I look forward to running olympus there someday (as well as fics) but it's still cli only and doesnt implement xboard/uci yet.
-Josh
jshriver wrote:Is this your own ICS server and a copy of mamer? If so do you have the source handy would be interested in running my own local ics w/ mamer for tourneys for fun might make a fun way to let multiple machines go at it with each other.
I run linux at home, but have an XP vm.
Indeed. It is a hacked version of the Lasker-2.3.3 server code, and I also had to make some fixes to mamer. I keep the sources on line at http://hgm.nubati.net, in the git repository, as one of the three projects there. (I called it "Capablanca".) I think I will still have to update the on-line repository for the latest fix I made, two weeks ago. Also the mamer in there is still the non-fixed version; initially I had not noticed at all that mamer was part of the Lasker package, and had downloaded its sources separately, and then worked on those. I should re-integrate that, so that the fixed mamer is also in the git repository.
To run the ICS from a VM you wuld somehow have to map your machine's port 5000 to the corresponding port in the VM. I run it on a bare machine. (An Asus Eee.)
Hello!
Would it be possible for me to participate with 'Pawny'?
If so, i have a couple of questions and I apologize in advance if they are stupid ones. I have a problem with time zone translation, so could you please help me a bit, H.G.? I'm GMT+2 here, so i wonder if that means CET-1, i.e. 20:00 startup time for my time zone, is that so, or i'm wrong?
Secondly, i logged in successfully, but should i register or just could log in at tournament start with an appropriate guest handle.
At the end, should i change any variable in order to run smoothly, like for example in FICS - td set autostart 1, in order to accept automatic challenges from the TD.
Also, I should say that i don't play variants.
Many Thanks in advance!
Mincho.
Mincho Georgiev wrote:Hello!
Would it be possible for me to participate with 'Pawny'?
If so, i have a couple of questions and I apologize in advance if they are stupid ones. I have a problem with time zone translation, so could you please help me a bit, H.G.? I'm GMT+2 here, so i wonder if that means CET-1, i.e. 20:00 startup time for my time zone, is that so, or i'm wrong?
Secondly, i logged in successfully, but should i register or just could log in at tournament start with an appropriate guest handle.
At the end, should i change any variable in order to run smoothly, like for example in FICS - td set autostart 1, in order to accept automatic challenges from the TD.
Also, I should say that i don't play variants.
Many Thanks in advance!
Mincho.
connect with telnet 80.100.28.169 5000
then type guest
<enter>
date
and you will get the local time of the server and GMT and synchronize it with your watch.
Sure you can. You should have a registered account, though; mamer doesn't allow guests to join anautomated tourney. (When you send it a "join" command it requets the player rating from the ICS with the intention to check if it within the bound for the tourney. But if it does not get the expected reply from the ICS, because guests have no rting, the chain of events breaks).
Just PM me an e-mail address, and I will make an account for Pawny.
CET is GMT+1 (Amterdam, Brussels, Paris). So I guess in your time zone it will be 22:00 when we start.
The open-source version of mamer seems a whole lot less advanced (and more buggy) than the one they use at FICS. I don't think it knows an autostart variable; it always tries to autostart tournament games (or at least that is the default). But if that fails (e.g. because the player is not logged on at the time) it does not maake any attempt to re-start it, and you would have to "match" the opponent by hand. (Which is a frequent source of trouble, because often such a match will then not have the correct TC or color assignment, and mamer will not recognize it when it finishes.)
