Using GNU Chess to generate a PGN book

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From: Alex Holland
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 20:10

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I'm doing a Third Year Computer Science degree project on Behaviour 
Cloning for Chess - using Inductive Logic Programming (Aleph in 
particular) to copy the chess playing behaviour of an existing person or 
machine.

One of the sources I'm considering cloning is GNU Chess, as I can easily 
have a look at it and see how it works, and it's fairly well documented. 
To this end, I'd like to set it up to play against itself for a few 
days, keeping all the game moves saved in a big text file. I can then 
use this file as positive examples for the ILP algorithms.

However, I can't find any way to do this. I know I can save games into 
PGN format, but I can't find any way to make it play against itself, 
short of typing "go" over and over again :)

Ideally what I want is for GNU chess to play against itself until 
endgame, then save a PGN, then repeat. Is there any facility for this, 
or am I going to have to exert my shaky C++ skills on the sourcecode?

For reference, I'm running GNU Chess 5.06 on Gentoo GNU/Linux.

Thanks in advance.

Alex Holland

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