- Go to File --->select  new ---> select Tournament

---> Give a name to your tournament and save

---->select some engine --->set up engine ---> choose a opening book ---> optimize the book --->

1. To invite engine to the tournament (see step 4 for details )

2. Edit to modify the engine who invite (set up, opening book.... )

3. To use the same opening book for all engine in the tournament

4. Invite human if you or your friends want to play in the tournament against engine (or against each other )

5. To delete an engine that you selected

6. To use the same Hash for all engine during the tournament

- Select your engine,book,egtb,hash,elo ...

1. choose your engine

2. choose your book, once you chose your book the name book is the right side here perfectv9.0.ctg ... If you didn 't chose a book you see No Book

3. opening different option (take a look at opening book help)

4. Uci engine option

5. If the engine could use EGTB or not during the tournament, if yes check Use tablebases

6. Hashtable size ... don 't put too much for blitz 64 or 128 Mo are enough under 10 mn games

7. The engine estimate Elo if you know  :-)

1. Choose your time control for all engine for the game   mn + s increment  or give a fix time .

2. How many times the same tournament

3. Move limit to not go over ... here 400,500,600 moves are more than enough

4. permanent brain or not (note : permanent brain on single cpu is bad for eng tournament, on dual cpu this option should be better ) I recommend to not use it for single cpu

5. If you want start games from a given position ( French, English ,Bird, Ruy Lopez ....)

6. if your opening book learning is put on or not .

7. Choose the kind of tournament you would like they play

8. If engine should alternate color or not (exemple in an single eng vs eng tournament both engine will alternate and play with white and black , or if you prefer to put the same engine play white for 100 games .... )

9. Click to begin the engine tournament and you are done :-D

10. next human game ... In case you add yourself to play

11. to see results/scores and cross table.

- on single cpu , don't use the computer during the tournament ... (on dual cpu should be ok with multi task cpu)

- Don't put too much hash for the engine and for the Egtb

- make back up of all your original opening books. (you never know )

- You could stop a tournament and hours later continue the same tournament with open existing tournament and run/continue

- if you want to follow the results (to see what engine is winning or losing) just click on cross table .

-If you want to publish your results on your website click on publish ...your website name and folders to put it ... user and password .