3 <title>WGP: Running a Tournament with PSWBTM</title>
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7 <h1>The WinBoard Gold Pack 4.4.0</h1>
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8 <h2>For the ultimate WinBoard experience!</h2>
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12 <h3>Setting up Tournament with PSWBTM</h3>
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14 The first two step for using PSWBTM,
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15 <a href="configure.html">configuring</a> it,
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16 and <a href="install.html">instaling some engines</a> into its database,
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17 have been described on an earlier page of this tutorial.
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18 In the WinBoard Gold Pack PSWBTM comes fully configured,
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19 with two engines pre-installed, so for a first trial these steps
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23 The third step in using PSWBTM is to set up a tournament.
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24 For this you select the "Tools -> New Tournament" menu item.
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25 This pops up a complex window with lot of controls and input fields.
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26 Here you have to provide all details about the tournament.
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27 But don't despair: most of the time you only change a few of these fields,
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28 and leave all others as they were for your last tournament.
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29 It is thus not as bad as it looks!
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32 We will start at the top and work our way down.
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33 You can give a name to your tourney,
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34 wich will appear in the PGN headers of all games.
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36 The next line you will have to enter the name of a PGN file,
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37 to which all games of the tourney will then be added.
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38 You thus can select an existing file,
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39 and to this end there is a "Browse" button, to spare you typing the name.
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40 The other two lines of the "File Settings" panel are not important now;
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41 we skip them, making sure the checkboxes in front of them are unchecked.
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43 The fields of the next panel, "Tournament Type", are essential.
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44 You have to choose between Gauntlet and Round-Robin with the radio-buttons on the left.
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45 If you have selected "Gauntlet",
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46 (meaning a single engine against one or more others),
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47 it is essential that you select the engine that has to play the gauntlet
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49 This combo box shows you (when you open it) the same list of engines you saw in the
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50 engine-manager window.
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51 Just select one by clicking it.
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52 For a Round-Robin this field is ignored.
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53 So for now, click "Round-Robin".
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54 You then must specify how many times the engines will have to play each other
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55 (usually 1 or 2 times, we select 2).
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57 <img src="tour.png">
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59 Then you have to select the time control for the tourney.
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60 The panel is more or less self-explanatory,
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61 and supports all time controls known by WinBoard,
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62 including fixed time or fixed depth.
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63 You can also select here if the engines will ponder or not.
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64 To make for a few quick games, select "incremental", with 1 min + 0 sec/move.
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66 Then you have to select the starting position.
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67 The default starting position will do for now,
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68 and in that case all other data in the panel is ignored.
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69 But the combo-box on the left also allows you to select
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70 to play from positions given in a PGN or FEN file.
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71 If you select that, you will have to give the corresponding file name in
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72 the field right of it, or browse to such a file.
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73 In that case you will also have to tick if you want to play each position
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74 once, or twice (with reversed colors).
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76 The "Initial Pairing Import" panel can be ignored.
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78 The last, but most important task, is to select the participants to the tourney.
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79 As only two engines are installed initially,
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80 we need both of them to participate.
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81 Just double-click them in the list on the right
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82 (which is again a display of the engine-manager database),
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83 and this will transfer them to the box on the left
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84 (which shows the participants).
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85 Once both engines are in, the tourney is fully specified,
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86 and we can click "OK" to quit the tournament-setup window.
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87 (As long as the tournament is not started, you can call up the
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88 "New Tournment" dialog again to correct possible errors.)
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90 This brings us back into the PSWBTM main window.
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91 The four tabs now all contain some information.
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92 The first one shows the pairings for every round.
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93 (With only two participants, te tourney will finish in single round, though.)
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94 The fourth shows an overview of all the settings for the tourney,
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95 which you just entered.
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96 So you can check there if you goofed.
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97 The fourth and final step, however,
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98 is to go to the "Control" tab.
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99 That is where the buttons are located that allow you to start the tourney,
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100 abort it permanently, or pause it
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101 (immediately, or after finishing the game in progress).
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102 The only confusing thing is that to start the tourney,
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103 you have to press "Resume".
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104 (The button is named this way because the same button is used to restart after a pause.)
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105 After that, the tournament will start,
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106 and run automatically to completion.
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107 While it is running you can use the PSWBTM "Standings" tab sheet to see
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108 how the participants are doing upto now.
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109 And watch and enjoy the games, of course.
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110 WinBoard will pop up as you left it last time,
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111 but noting you change now (including the size and position of all its windows) will be remembered for the next game of the tourney.
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113 <img src="pswbtm.png">
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115 After two games our small round-robin will be finished.
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116 The games will have been saved in the PGN file you selected.
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118 <strong>Congratulations!</strong>
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119 You now have played your first tournament
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120 with PSWBTM + WinBoard.
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121 That is all there is to it.
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122 Now just <a href="install.html">install some more engines</a>,
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123 and you are in business!
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