Answers.Body: <p>Try cutechess, a reliable software.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I'm looking for a command-line tool to let two chess engines play a game or a tournament against each other. The tool should support UCI and/or the xboard protocol and it should allow to save the game as a PGN.</p>
  
  <p>I could only find GUI programs for that purpose. Aren't there any commandline tools that can do that job?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: This question is about command-line tools only. The possible duplicate does not mention that cutechess has a command-line interface.
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Tags: <engines><computer-chess>
Title: CLI tool to let chess engines play each other
ThreadText: # CLI tool to let chess engines play each other
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-01-15)
  
  I'm looking for a command-line tool to let two chess engines play a game or a tournament against each other. The tool should support UCI and/or the xboard protocol and it should allow to save the game as a PGN.
  
  I could only find GUI programs for that purpose. Aren't there any commandline tools that can do that job?
  
  **Tags:** engines, computer-chess
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: This question is about command-line tools only. The possible duplicate does not mention that cutechess has a command-line interface.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-01-15. Score: 2
  
  Try cutechess, a reliable software.
  
  
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