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
       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>'.

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).