RE: Communication between computer Go programs

[Peter.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> From: P.J.Leonard 
> 
>  Are we talking about programs playing games against each
> other or are we talking about different programs collaborating
> to play a game ?  EG a protocol to ask a sever life and death
> solver to evaluate the status and suggest the best move (if
> it exists).
>

I was interested in having a simple functional interface to GMP realisable
for me as a DLL on Windows.  Having such an interface would enable testing
of a GMP client on Windows.  One could write a DLL (for example) with that
interface which actually contained a Wally style Go program instead of modem
port code.

Different programs cooperating to play Go is interesting.   I would think
the programs would need to be tightly coupled together for performance
rather than linked using inter-process communication (but then again perhaps
not.)

Regards,

Peter Smith.