Answers.Body: <p>If you use Arena 3.5, you can set an engine to play a game by itself or even two different engines to play a game between them.</p>
  
  <p>Just go to <strong>Engines->Manage...</strong> and there add any engines you want on the <strong>Loaded Engines</strong>.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Yes, Arena can do what you want.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Download Arena 3.5</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.playwitharena.com/?Download" rel="nofollow">http://www.playwitharena.com/?Download</a></p></li>
  <li><p>Adding Komodo (or any other engine) to Arena:</p>
  
  <p>On the menu select Engines -> Manage
  Open the Details tab
  Click the new button
  Point it at the executable
  Select Ok</p></li>
  <li><p>If you want it to play itself from a certain position you can set up an 
  engine tournament using an epd file to set the position
  you want the engine to play from, and then in the settings for the tournament
  if you hit the level button you can set a fixed time intveral, or fixed depth
  for the engine to play. To create an epd file, you can copy the position from
  Scid using Edit->Copy to FEN, and then in Arena using Position->Get FEN from
  Clipboard, and then EPD->Save Position in EPD Format. This file would then
  passed to the engine tournament dialog.</p>
  
  <p>There might be a way to get it to play itself from a position without using
  the engine tournament, but I'm not that familiar with the interface.</p></li>
  <li><p>If you want to have it analyze a game that has already been played, or what
  has been played so far can use automatic analysis under the Engines menu.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Arena seems to have a pretty thorough help file, so most of your questions will
  probably have answers in there.</p>
  
  <p>Edit: It was pointed out in another question that the demo button in Arena will
        have the engine play itself. So you can just set up the position, make
        sure komodo is loaded, Go into Level->Adjust to set the time interval you
        want for moves, and then hit the demo button.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: +1 for the <--> Demo button, which works much easier than setting up a tournament (which requires setting up the same engine twice in Arena.
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Body: <p>I'm participating in some engines-on correspondence games at ficgs.com.  To assist in my analysis of my games, I'd like to set up a chess engine (probably Komodo9 which I own) to play moves against itself after a certain time interval.  Do any of the UI's like SCID or Arena support this? (Droidfish on my phone does but that won't do)  And if so, what are the steps to achieve this?</p>
  
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Title: How to setup a chess engine to play itself?
ThreadText: # How to setup a chess engine to play itself?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-11-13)
  
  I'm participating in some engines-on correspondence games at ficgs.com. To assist in my analysis of my games, I'd like to set up a chess engine (probably Komodo9 which I own) to play moves against itself after a certain time interval. Do any of the UI's like SCID or Arena support this? (Droidfish on my phone does but that won't do) And if so, what are the steps to achieve this?
  
  **Tags:** engines, uci
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Is this a starting place? http://adamsccpages.blogspot.com/p/conducting-engine-tournaments-under.html  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_3 on 2015-11-14. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  Yes, Arena can do what you want.
  
  1. Download Arena 3.5
  
     <http://www.playwitharena.com/?Download>
  2. Adding Komodo (or any other engine) to Arena:
  
     On the menu select Engines -> Manage
     Open the Details tab
     Click the new button
     Point it at the executable
     Select Ok
  3. If you want it to play itself from a certain position you can set up an
     engine tournament using an epd file to set the position
     you want the engine to play from, and then in the settings for the tournament
     if you hit the level button you can set a fixed time intveral, or fixed depth
     for the engine to play. To create an epd file, you can copy the position from
     Scid using Edit->Copy to FEN, and then in Arena using Position->Get FEN from
     Clipboard, and then EPD->Save Position in EPD Format. This file would then
     passed to the engine tournament dialog.
  
     There might be a way to get it to play itself from a position without using
     the engine tournament, but I'm not that familiar with the interface.
  4. If you want to have it analyze a game that has already been played, or what
     has been played so far can use automatic analysis under the Engines menu.
  
  Arena seems to have a pretty thorough help file, so most of your questions will
  probably have answers in there.
  
  Edit: It was pointed out in another question that the demo button in Arena will
  have the engine play itself. So you can just set up the position, make
  sure komodo is loaded, Go into Level->Adjust to set the time interval you
  want for moves, and then hit the demo button.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_4**: +1 for the <--> Demo button, which works much easier than setting up a tournament (which requires setting up the same engine twice in Arena.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-11-14. Score: 1
  
  If you use Arena 3.5, you can set an engine to play a game by itself or even two different engines to play a game between them.
  
  Just go to **Engines->Manage...** and there add any engines you want on the **Loaded Engines**.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: Can we make two engines play against each other even in Droidfish?  
  
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