LittleBlitzer

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LittleBlitzer, (LB) an UCI compliant, dialogue based user interface by Nathan Thom for the purpose to play automated tournaments using a set of UCI engines configured by external text files. Tournaments are either round-robin where each engine plays the same number of games, or gauntlets where one engine plays all others repeatedly. As output of a tournament, LB creates a PGN file, which could be used by Bayeselo or Elostat to calculate a rating for each participant. LittleBlitzer is designed to run tens of thousands of games at fast time controls without a game view via graphical notation window or board windows to monitor the games. LB assigns one thread per engine, and may play multiple games in parallel if multiple processors are available. LB supports Chess 960 as well as positions loaded from FEN, EPD or PGN files, and can adjudicate games early based on specified criteria.

=See also=
 * Amoeba Tournament Manager
 * Cutechess-cli
 * Engine Testing
 * LittleThought
 * Tournament Manager

=Forum Posts=
 * LittleBlitzer 2.3 Released by Nathan Thom, CCC, August 10, 2010
 * New Tournament Manager?!: Little Blitzer 2.3 by Harun Taner, CCC, August 18, 2010
 * LittleBlitzer 2.4 Released by Nathan Thom, CCC, August 23, 2010
 * LittleBlitzer 2.6 Released by Nathan Thom, CCC, February 22, 2011
 * Ponder 'on' in LittleBlitzer by Alberto Sanjuan, CCC, December 21, 2011 » Pondering
 * LittleBlitzer 2.74 and epd file by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, October 28, 2014
 * LittleBlitzer question and possible problem by Jouni Uski, CCC, December 29, 2015

=External Links=
 * Kimien Software - LittleBlitzer Chess Software

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