Winboard tourneys

[José Carlos]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: José Carlos am 04. November 1999 21:53:27:
As far as I know, Winboard doesn't implement making tourneys. Please, correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm doing some tests with a cople of instructions from Windows API that allow running a program and wating for it ends without taking any CPU time.
If this works, I can easyly write a program that reads the Winboard.ini and runs Winboard with the correct command line for making a game, waiting for it ends, and then send the next.
I have the pairings for many different number of players in a book, so it would be very easy to make a tourney.
Can winboard do something similar? Is there anything like this on the net? If not, I will start working on it...
José C.

[Pete Galati]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Pete Galati am 04. November 1999 22:28:59:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Winboard tourneys geschrieben von:/posted by: José Carlos am 04. November 1999 21:53:27:

As far as I know, Winboard doesn't implement making tourneys. Please, correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm doing some tests with a cople of instructions from Windows API that allow running a program and wating for it ends without taking any CPU time.
If this works, I can easyly write a program that reads the Winboard.ini and runs Winboard with the correct command line for making a game, waiting for it ends, and then send the next.
I have the pairings for many different number of players in a book, so it would be very easy to make a tourney.
Can winboard do something similar? Is there anything like this on the net? If not, I will start working on it...
José C.

This would be very cool, I think allot of people would love to have a program like that. As far as I know Winboard can only do matches and can't run any tournaments, maybe someone will speak up and say that I'm wrong though.
My first thought is to give it a way to limit the amount of games that it'll play because most of us can't give up our computer for long extended periods of time.
Pete

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Dann Corbit am 04. November 1999 22:46:19:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Winboard tourneys geschrieben von:/posted by: José Carlos am 04. November 1999 21:53:27:

As far as I know, Winboard doesn't implement making tourneys. Please, correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm doing some tests with a cople of instructions from Windows API that allow running a program and wating for it ends without taking any CPU time.
If this works, I can easyly write a program that reads the Winboard.ini and runs Winboard with the correct command line for making a game, waiting for it ends, and then send the next.
I have the pairings for many different number of players in a book, so it would be very easy to make a tourney.
Can winboard do something similar? Is there anything like this on the net?

If not, I will start working on it...
It would be especially interesting if you could keep all the other winboard stuff (e.g. two programs are on separate machines over the network).
A tournament manager could be a server of some kind.


My ftp site

[José Carlos]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: José Carlos am 04. November 1999 23:16:44:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: Winboard tourneys geschrieben von:/posted by: Dann Corbit am 04. November 1999 22:46:19:

As far as I know, Winboard doesn't implement making tourneys. Please, correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm doing some tests with a cople of instructions from Windows API that allow running a program and wating for it ends without taking any CPU time.
If this works, I can easyly write a program that reads the Winboard.ini and runs Winboard with the correct command line for making a game, waiting for it ends, and then send the next.
I have the pairings for many different number of players in a book, so it would be very easy to make a tourney.
Can winboard do something similar? Is there anything like this on the net?

If not, I will start working on it...
It would be especially interesting if you could keep all the other winboard stuff (e.g. two programs are on separate machines over the network).
A tournament manager could be a server of some kind.

I don't really know a lot about winboard possibilities. If playing two programs on separate machines over the network is implemented in winboard, and it works just with a proper command line, it would be enough for me.
My idea is as simple as running tasks one after another, waiting till they finish without wasting CPU while waiting.
So, the only thing I can do is run winboard with a given command line. Then wait. Then run it with another command line. And so on...
José C.

[Dann Corbit]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Dann Corbit am 05. November 1999 00:00:39:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: Winboard tourneys geschrieben von:/posted by: José Carlos am 04. November 1999 23:16:44:
I have some tournament planning software written in C that may be useful for your purposes. Send me an email if you want it.

My ftp site

[José Carlos]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: José Carlos am 06. November 1999 12:21:53:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: Winboard tourneys geschrieben von:/posted by: Dann Corbit am 05. November 1999 00:00:39:

I have some tournament planning software written in C that may be useful for your purposes. Send me an email if you want it.

Ok, Dann, I'll be out for a couple of days, and I'll email you when I come back.
Thanks for your help.

[José Carlos]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: José Carlos am 06. November 1999 12:26:10:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: Winboard tourneys geschrieben von:/posted by: Pete Galati am 04. November 1999 22:28:59:

As far as I know, Winboard doesn't implement making tourneys. Please, correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm doing some tests with a cople of instructions from Windows API that allow running a program and wating for it ends without taking any CPU time.
If this works, I can easyly write a program that reads the Winboard.ini and runs Winboard with the correct command line for making a game, waiting for it ends, and then send the next.
I have the pairings for many different number of players in a book, so it would be very easy to make a tourney.
Can winboard do something similar? Is there anything like this on the net? If not, I will start working on it...
José C.

This would be very cool, I think allot of people would love to have a program like that. As far as I know Winboard can only do matches and can't run any tournaments, maybe someone will speak up and say that I'm wrong though.
My first thought is to give it a way to limit the amount of games that it'll play because most of us can't give up our computer for long extended periods of time.
Pete

Yeah, I understand. As I can see, it'd be easy to select, say the next 5 games, and launch them in a row. But, at this moment, I can't see how to stop "the row" if needed for some reason, because closing the current game in winboard would cause the next to start.
Anyway, I'll think about it when I come back (I'll be out for the weekend).
I've been told about Chessvision via email. Is it similar to what I want to do? Is it freeware?
Thanks for your help,
José C.