On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 5:20 PM, H.G. Muller <[email protected]> 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
