Re: [XBoard-devel] saving games played on freechess.org

[kamaraju kusumanchi]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 5:20 PM, H.G. Muller <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> kamaraju kusumanchi schreef op 4/19/2015 om 6:10 AM:
>>
>> I am currently using xboard 4.8.0 on Debian Jessie to play games on
>> freechess.org using the following command
>>
>> % rlwrap xboard -ics -icshost freechess.org
>> ...
>> fics% getgame f
>>
>> I was wondering if you could answer the following questions
>>
>> 1) I would like xboard to automatically save the game on the hard
>> drive once I finish playing it. Is this possible?
>
> Yes: you can tick 'Auto-Save Games' in the Save Game Options dialog,
> and specify a file there. All games will then automatically be appended to
> the
> specified file when they finish.

Thanks. I will give this a try.

>> 2) After finishing playing the game, I can do File -> Save Game to
>> manually save a game. However, the filename of the pgn file is set to
>> whitePlayer-blackPlayer.pgn by default. Is it possible to rename this
>> as whitePlayer_vs_blackPlayer_YYYYmmDD_HHMMSS.pgn? Here YYYYmmDD and
>> HHMMSS correspond to the date and time of the game.
>
> Currently there the default proposal for the name of the save file is
> hard-coded.
> But it could be an idea to make this user-configurable through an option.
> For the
> tournament file defining engine-engine tourneys such an option already
> exists,
> and can indeed make use of date and time components.
>
> 'Time' is not a standard PGN tag. I guess XBoard could be equiped with an
> option
> to generate such a time tag. Not sure what it is supposed to contain,
> however.
> The time that the game started? Or finished? Or was saved?
>

I do not have any preference here. The time when a game is finished
works fine for me. Basically, I want to have two different file names
if I played with the same opponent multiple times on any given day.

thanks
raju