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NAME

       tourney-manager - perl interface to run chess engine tourneys

SYNOPSIS

       tourney-manager configfiles

DESCRIPTION

       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 man-
       ager. 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>'.

OPTIONS

       This program just takes the configfile as an option.

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).

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