Re: Progress - OpenGo...

[John Clarke <johnc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

> IMHO, Go Modem Protocol is horrible. It could have been suitable for modem
> communications many years ago, but now that TCP/IP "rules", the parity
> bits and the amount of compression used is obsolete, I think. I think we
> should develop a new protocol for 2000's.

It's often said that standards are wonderful, and the best thing about
them is that there are so many to choose from.

The GMP may not be perfect, but it gets the job done.  Do we really
need to make everyone rewrite/retest/redebug their communications code?
If we really, truly _need_ additional _functionality_ then we must
support the existing GMP, as is, into the future i.e. total backwards
compatibility.

Instead how about a public:

1) gigantic joseki / fuseki database

2) common yose (endgame) database

3) and Dave Dyer has done a *brilliant* thing with his eyespace database

   http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/go/shape/ShapeApplet.html

(but I've never got the Java to work - I think my netscape is dodgy)
His webpage says it's available for noncomercial use - Dave where is 
the code?  I couldn't see a link on your pages? 

these three would be really useful for everybody.

John