- WHAT: The competition is to pit two computer chess engines in a match, best 3 of 5.
- WHERE: R.C., S.D.
- WHEN: Week of Dec 22, 2014.
- WHY: FOR HONOR! And beer.
Additional details:
The programmer of the winning engine receives 24-beers of their choice. The beer shall be sold in either 24-pack or 12-pack varieties, not a mix-and-match.
An early meetup shall take place during the week of Sept 8th to perform testing to ensure connectivity.
- Install Oracle VM VirtualBox
- Install Vagrant.
- $ vagrant init
- $ vagrant up
- $ vagrant ssh
- $ xboard
- Configure XBoard using the GUI to use the chess engines.
- Start match.
- ???
- Profit!