Answers.Body: <p>When you set up a tournament in Arena, there should be a tab &quot;Options&quot; and within that a selection thing for Starting position. There you can select to load the starting position from a pgn file.</p>
  <p>If you do not have a pgn yet of the opening you want them to play you can e.g. play the desired opening line in Arena and then File -&gt; Save as pgn. If you want the tournament to test multiple variations you can create a fresh board, play the next line and then save it to the same pgn.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I would like to organize an engine tournament on Arena and restrict it only to one opening. How do I do that?</p>
  
Tags: <opening><engines><software><tournament><arena>
Title: I would like to make engine play specific openings
ThreadText: # I would like to make engine play specific openings
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-08-31)
  
  I would like to organize an engine tournament on Arena and restrict it only to one opening. How do I do that?
  
  **Tags:** opening, engines, software, tournament, arena
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2023-09-01. Score: 1
  
  When you set up a tournament in Arena, there should be a tab "Options" and within that a selection thing for Starting position. There you can select to load the starting position from a pgn file.
  
  If you do not have a pgn yet of the opening you want them to play you can e.g. play the desired opening line in Arena and then File -> Save as pgn. If you want the tournament to test multiple variations you can create a fresh board, play the next line and then save it to the same pgn.
  
  
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