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Help me set up a Match: Old vs. New
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:37 am
by Dave Mitchell
Older software running on newest hardware, vs. newer software running on older hardware -- that's the goal of this match.
Since I'd like to make it a double round robin, I thought a software match program would be the only way to fly. Outside of running Winboard a decade ago, I'm clueless how this might be done.
The "older hardware" would be simulated via less time on the clock, and the whole match would run on an i7 Quad or a dual Quad Xeon 5420 server.
Thanks for your help, and congratulations on this forum. Being able to view chess games right in the browser is great!
Re: Help me set up a Match: Old vs. New
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:06 am
by Matthias Gemuh
Dave Mitchell wrote:Older software running on newest hardware, vs. newer software running on older hardware -- that's the goal of this match.
Since I'd like to make it a double round robin, I thought a software match program would be the only way to fly. Outside of running Winboard a decade ago, I'm clueless how this might be done.
The "older hardware" would be simulated via less time on the clock, and the whole match would run on an i7 Quad or a dual Quad Xeon 5420 server.
Thanks for your help, and congratulations on this forum. Being able to view chess games right in the browser is great!
In ChessGUI 0.204, you would set the "Time Fraction" of the engines that should use less time.
"Time Fraction" = 8 means "use only 1/8 th of allocated time", for example.
Setup the tournament as "Team Fight" if you want only "old vs new".
Cheers,
Matthias.
Re: Help me set up a Match: Old vs. New
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:53 pm
by Dave Mitchell
In ChessGUI 0.204, you would set the "Time Fraction" of the engines that should use less time.
"Time Fraction" = 8 means "use only 1/8 th of allocated time", for example.
Setup the tournament as "Team Fight" if you want only "old vs new".
Thanks for your suggestions Mathias, and for all the work that went into ChessGUI - that's impressive!
I set up Fruit vs. Crafty for a test of 2 games as a Round Robin - but Fruit got put in as white, in both games. How can I tell it to swap colors after every game?
Also, just my curiosity, but what does the "< Button 16 >" do? I couldn't resist pushing it a few times, but couldn't determine what it did.