cutechess questions

[Greg Mattson]

ok, I got cutechess to work, to try to better specify # of nodes as dietrich was suggesting. i've attached a short setup guide for those who are interested:

however, I had a couple of issues:

    1. i'm able to output it to a pgn via the -pgnout argument, but it is pretty dull since all it shows is the results of the games, not the moves.

    2. it does not seem to accept node counts greater than 2 billion. I was hoping to mimic the A0 match completely, and given that the time 

        controls on the alphazero would average 4.2 billion nodes/move, i'm not sure how to do this.

    3. I couldn't find a decent mailing list for it to ask questions.

so is there a way to output both to a pgn and to the cutechess gui at the same time so I can see what is going on? And is there a mailing list?

thanks much,

-- short setup guide --

1. go to https://github.com/cutechess/cutechess to download

2. setup a file, engines.json in the extracted cutechess dir that looks like this:

[

{

"name": "stockfish",

"command": "\\Users\\Greg\\lc0\\stockfish\\Windows\\stockfish_9_x64.exe",

"protocol": "uci"

},

{

"name": "lc0",

"command": "\\Users\\Greg\\lc0\\lc0\\lc0.exe",

"protocol": "uci"

}

]

3. run the following command, where each conf refers to an entry in engines.conf

.\cutechess-cli -tournament gauntlet -rounds 1 -games 10 -concurrency 1 -pgnout my.pgn -recover -engine conf=stockfish tc=inf nodes=5250000 -engine conf=lc0 tc=inf nodes=6000 -each proto=uci timemargin=1000