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-<h1>The WinBoard Gold Pack 4.4.0</h1>\r
-<h2>For the ultimate WinBoard experience!</h2>\r
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-<h3>Setting up Tournament with PSWBTM</h3>\r
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-The first two step for using PSWBTM,\r
-<a href="configure.html">configuring</a> it, \r
-and <a href="install.html">instaling some engines</a> into its database,\r
-have been described on an earlier page of this tutorial.\r
-In the WinBoard Gold Pack PSWBTM comes fully configured,\r
-with two engines pre-installed, so for a first trial these steps\r
-can be skipped.\r
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-The third step in using PSWBTM is to set up a tournament.\r
-For this you select the "Tools -> New Tournament" menu item.\r
-This pops up a complex window with lot of controls and input fields.\r
-Here you have to provide all details about the tournament.\r
-But don't despair: most of the time you only change a few of these fields,\r
-and leave all others as they were for your last tournament.\r
-It is thus not as bad as it looks!\r
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-We will start at the top and work our way down.\r
-You can give a name to your tourney,\r
-wich will appear in the PGN headers of all games.\r
-This is optional.\r
-The next line you will have to enter the name of a PGN file,\r
-to which all games of the tourney will then be added.\r
-You thus can select an existing file,\r
-and to this end there is a "Browse" button, to spare you typing the name.\r
-The other two lines of the "File Settings" panel are not important now;\r
-we skip them, making sure the checkboxes in front of them are unchecked.\r
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-The fields of the next panel, "Tournament Type", are essential.\r
-You have to choose between Gauntlet and Round-Robin with the radio-buttons on the left.\r
-If you have selected "Gauntlet",\r
-(meaning a single engine against one or more others),\r
-it is essential that you select the engine that has to play the gauntlet\r
-with the combo-box.\r
-This combo box shows you (when you open it) the same list of engines you saw in the\r
-engine-manager window.\r
-Just select one by clicking it.\r
-For a Round-Robin this field is ignored.\r
-So for now, click "Round-Robin".\r
-You then must specify how many times the engines will have to play each other\r
-(usually 1 or 2 times, we select 2).\r
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-Then you have to select the time control for the tourney.\r
-The panel is more or less self-explanatory,\r
-and supports all time controls known by WinBoard,\r
-including fixed time or fixed depth.\r
-You can also select here if the engines will ponder or not.\r
-To make for a few quick games, select "incremental", with 1 min + 0 sec/move.\r
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-Then you have to select the starting position.\r
-The default starting position will do for now,\r
-and in that case all other data in the panel is ignored.\r
-But the combo-box on the left also allows you to select \r
-to play from positions given in a PGN or FEN file.\r
-If you select that, you will have to give the corresponding file name in\r
-the field right of it, or browse to such a file.\r
-In that case you will also have to tick if you want to play each position\r
-once, or twice (with reversed colors).\r
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-The "Initial Pairing Import" panel can be ignored.\r
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-The last, but most important task, is to select the participants to the tourney.\r
-As only two engines are installed initially,\r
-we need both of them to participate.\r
-Just double-click them in the list on the right\r
-(which is again a display of the engine-manager database),\r
-and this will transfer them to the box on the left\r
-(which shows the participants).\r
-Once both engines are in, the tourney is fully specified,\r
-and we can click "OK" to quit the tournament-setup window.\r
-(As long as the tournament is not started, you can call up the \r
-"New Tournment" dialog again to correct possible errors.)\r
-</p><p>\r
-This brings us back into the PSWBTM main window.\r
-The four tabs now all contain some information.\r
-The first one shows the pairings for every round.\r
-(With only two participants, te tourney will finish in single round, though.)\r
-The fourth shows an overview of all the settings for the tourney,\r
-which you just entered.\r
-So you can check there if you goofed.\r
-The fourth and final step, however,\r
-is to go to the "Control" tab.\r
-That is where the buttons are located that allow you to start the tourney,\r
-abort it permanently, or pause it \r
-(immediately, or after finishing the game in progress).\r
-The only confusing thing is that to start the tourney,\r
-you have to press "Resume".\r
-(The button is named this way because the same button is used to restart after a pause.)\r
-After that, the tournament will start,\r
-and run automatically to completion.\r
-While it is running you can use the PSWBTM "Standings" tab sheet to see\r
-how the participants are doing upto now.\r
-And watch and enjoy the games, of course.\r
-WinBoard will pop up as you left it last time,\r
-but noting you change now (including the size and position of all its windows) will be remembered for the next game of the tourney.\r
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-After two games our small round-robin will be finished.\r
-The games will have been saved in the PGN file you selected.\r
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-<strong>Congratulations!</strong>\r
-You now have played your first tournament\r
-with PSWBTM + WinBoard.\r
-That is all there is to it.\r
-Now just <a href="install.html">install some more engines</a>,\r
-and you are in business!\r
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