RE: [Bug-gnubg] Doing a rollout as a background job

[Ian Shaw]

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> Sent: 15 June 2009 02:48
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> Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] Doing a rollout as a background job
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> On 14/06/09 6:39 PM, "Timothy Y. Chow" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Now that I have installed gnubg in my own directory on a 
> shared Linux 
> > machine, I am wondering if I can do rollouts as background 
> jobs.  That 
> > is, I would like to be able to prepare an input file with a given 
> > position, and then do something like
> > 
> >  /bin/nice -19 gnubg -rolloutoption <inputfile> <outputfile> &
> > 
> > and come back the next day to examine the <outputfile> for 
> the rollout 
> > results.  Is there a way to do this?  I'm even having 
> trouble figuring 
> > out how to input a position using only a line-terminal interface.
> > 
> 
> This is not my area of expertise but I was able to do this:
> 
> Put this in a file rollout1
> 
> set player 0 name player1
> set player 1 name player2
> set gnubgid HN/ACAZiWzAMIw:sAFnAaAAEAAA
> hint
> cmark move set rollout 1 2
> analyse rollout move
> save position "rollout1.sgf"
> 
> And then did
> 
> nice -19 gnubg -t <rollout1 >rollout.log 2>&1
> 
> 
> You can of course set all the rollout parameters after the 
> player names. The save position is a convenient way to save 
> the rollout info into a file automagically. Rollout.log will 
> be raw gnubg output.
> 
> After setting the gnubgid you must do hint. That will allow 
> the cmark feature to mark the moves you wish to rollout for 
> the current position.
> 
> Cmark move set rollout 1 2
> 
> Will mark the first two moves for current position.
> 
> analyse rollout move
> 
> Will analyze the currently marked moves for the position
> 
> If the position is a cube (before a roll) then you can 
> analyze with (you don't need to do hint first):
> 
> analyse rollout cube
> 
> You can in theory load an entire match, mark all the 
> positions/moves with cmark and then roll it out all at once.
> 
> The -t option prevents the gui from loading.
> 
> 

Does "save position" work now? In the past it only stored the position
and not the analysis. I've always had to do "save game".

-- Ian