can WB make a temporary PGN ?

[Clemens Keck]

Hello WinBoard lovers

3 questions please:

1)for my engine matches and tournaments I want to use palive for broadcast. But I need a temporary PGN from the running game, always only the running game in it. It should be additional to the savegame pgn. Is this still there in WB ?
2)Or can WB create a HTML from tournaments?
3)How can ubuntu users use the TCLV client?

thanks for any help

best regards, Clemens keck

[H.G.Muller]

WinBoard only saves PGN at the end of the game. Tools such as TLCS that want to know how the game progresses, extract the game from the debug file, which is updated real time.

WinBoard has an undocumented option /serverMoves=FILENAME, which makes it flush all moves to the given file as soon as they are played, (together with score/depth) and also updates a file with the most recent PV for each engine. The moves are not stored as SAN, though, as SAN is very hard to decode. So for the ChessLive! viewer I developed a more efficient format.

[Guenther Simon]

Hello WinBoard lovers

3 questions please:

1)for my engine matches and tournaments I want to use palive for broadcast. But I need a temporary PGN from the running game, always only the running game in it. It should be additional to the savegame pgn. Is this still there in WB ?
2)Or can WB create a HTML from tournaments?
3)How can ubuntu users use the TCLV client?

thanks for any help

best regards, Clemens keck

ad 3)
It seems forgotten that Andrew Fan also made client/server programs for relaying WB games. He even programmed a Java client called REGO,
which should work across platforms, but I don't know if it is still for download and what the latest version was. I guess I still have it on one
of my old computers/HDs.
Another way would be to use Wine/Microwine for the Win clients. IIRC there was a post by Tom Likens on Talkchess in 2004 or 2005 about
how he used it on SUSE Linux. I found it:

Just thought I'd pass this on in case anyone else is interested. I just
installed Tom McBurney's online chess viewer under Linux using CrossOver
Office 4.2. I initially tried vanilla wine, but even after copying over
the "MSVBVM60.DLL" library (which was missing from my default wine setup)
it still didn't function correctly. For reference, my setup:

SUSE 9.3 Pro
CrossOver Office 4.2 Pro (although the standard ver. should work fine)
Tom's Live Chess Viewer ver. 2.01

Guenther

P.S. REGO is still there: (I couldn't see it though because I always avoided to install M$ 'Silverlight' now
I finally gave up avoiding it...)

http://fireflychess.dyndns.org/