tourney-manager - perl interface to run chess engine tourneys

       tourney-manager was written by Holger Ruckdeschel <holger@hoicher.de>.

       This  manual  page  was written by Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by
       others).

Oliver Korff                                      July 12, 2006                               TOURNEY-MANAGER(6)

tourney-manager helps you to run chess engine tournaments easyly.

       Running Tournaments:

       1.  Create  a  directory  in  which the tourneymanager can put all his temporary files, configuration and
       results.

       2. Then create the configuration files.  Look  at  /usr/share/doc/tourney-manager/example.conf  which  is
       supplied along with the tourney manager. Copy this to the tourney directory,it is rather well commented.

       More  tuning  has  to  be  done  to  specify non standard chess engines. The example-engine.conf has some
       standard engines set. The settings have to be tuned according your system.

       Example for an UCI engine:

       example-engines.conf:

       engine = Glaurung2 bin     = /home/username/chess/tourney/glau.sh

       glau.sh:

       #!/bin/bash /usr/games/polyglot /home/username/chess/tourney/glaurung.ini

       glaurung.ini:

       [PolyGlot]

       EngineDir = .  EngineCommand = /usr/games/glaurung

       Log = false LogFile = glaurung.log

       Resign = true ResignScore = 600

       [Engine]

       Hash = 64 OwnBook = false Threads = 1

       3. Start the tourney manager tourney-manager The tourney manager uses an interactive  command  shell.  To
       start up quickly,the following sequence of commands should be enough:

               create
               print
               start

          Help about commands is available by 'help' and 'help <command>'.

       tourney-manager - perl interface to run chess engine tourneys

       This program just takes the configfile as an option.

/usr/share/doc/tourney-manager/example.conf, and /usr/share/doc/tourney-manager/example-engines.conf.

tourney-manager configfiles