Where Does Cute Chess Store Config and PGNs?
Where Cute Chess keeps cutechess.ini, engines and PGN output.
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Cute Chess keeps user config in cutechess.ini under the standard config home with engines and PGN paths recorded inside. A system wide fallback exists for shared machines.
Tournament output defaults live in the ini under tournament and games sections. Always set explicit PGN output per event, since forgotten paths are the top cause of lost engine games. CLI builds take the same paths plus flags.
Where Cute Chess stores this, by platform
~/.config/cutechess/cutechess.ini
User config with engine list and default PGN outputs. System fallback under /etc/xdg on shared installs. Set explicit PGN output per tournament; check ini defaults when games go missing.
%APPDATA%\cutechess\cutechess.ini
Same ini role under Roaming AppData on Windows. Keep opening books beside the config for portable event setups. Close the GUI before hand editing paths.
Frequently asked questions
Where did my tournament games save?
Set the PGN output path in the New Tournament dialog before starting. Forgotten paths leave games unsaved, though the ini records default output files from previous runs worth checking.
How do I migrate Cute Chess settings?
Back up cutechess.ini plus the engines file and any opening books. The man page documents the user config path with a system wide fallback, so copy both when migrating across machines.
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