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Greg Strong wrote on Sun, Jan 26, 2020 08:17 PM UTC:

The control file is a tab-delimited text file.  The first row is the header row identifying what is in each column.  Each row after is a game that will be played.

The required columns are:

Game - the filename of a saved-game file (*.sgf)

Engine1 - the engine playing player 1 ("ChessV", "Fairy-Max", etc.)

Engine2 - the engine playing player 2 ("ChessV", "Fairy-Max", etc.)

Time Control - the time controls (“1:30” would be entire game in 1 minute 30 seconds, “0:10+2” would be a base time of 10 seconds, plus an increment of 2 seconds for each move.)

Other columns are optional:

ID - If you want to identify the games in some special way.  By default they will just be identified by row number.

Variation - The variation of play (“None”, “Small”, “Medium”, or “Large”.  Default is None.)

Player1 and Player2 - How you want the sides identified for purposes of counting up statistics.  By default, it will use the engine names.  Which is reasonable if the purpose of the test is to pit ChessV against Fairy-Max and see which one does better.  For ChessV vs. ChessV, it won’t accomplish much.  In your case, you are testing Augmented Knight vs. Extra Pawn, so name your player accordingly.  Also note this can do variable substitution in the form of #{variable}, so for testing different armies, you would specify #{WhiteArmy} for player 1 and #{BlackArmy} for player two.

For your purposes, let’s say you have two saved game files - WhiteAugmented.sgf and BlackAugmented.sgf.  They don’t need any moves in them unless you want to have multiple files from different start positions.  Given this, your control file could look like this:

Game    Engine1    Engine2    Time Control    Player1    Player2    Variation
WhiteAugmented.sgf    ChessV    ChessV    0:30    Augmented Knight    Extra Pawn    Small
BlackAugmented.sgf    ChessV    ChessV    0:30    Extra Pawn    Augmented Knight    Small

 


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