TOURNEY-MANAGER(6)

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💖 TOURNEY-MANAGER 💖 (games(6))

okay bestie, buckle up — this is the tourney-manager page from the games manual, section 6, and it's literally your backstage pass to running chess engine tournaments. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

tourney-manager — a perl interface to run chess engine tourneys 🏆

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

tourney-manager configfiles

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so tourney-manager helps you run chess engine tournaments, easyly. yes, that's the whole vibe. let's go. 💅

⭐ 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. (fr fr, the comments carry 🙏)

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
  1. 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>'. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • This program just takes the configfile as an option. that's it, that's the whole menu, no secret extras 😌

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

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

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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).

ok that's the whole page bestie, go run some tourneys, you got this 💜

Oliver Korff — July 12, 2006 — and this was TOURNEY-MANAGER(6) from the games(6) manual. mwah. 💖🎀🦋

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