Re: computer-go: Interfacing 2 engines for automated play

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gnugo can do this.  I use two computers and an rs-232 interface with the go 
modem
protocol.  But I have copies of many of the strong programs to play against...

Michael Reiss wrote something that can pick moves out of the windows GUI 
and put
moves in (as mouse clicks to the gui), and uses this to test with 
commercial versions of
the strong programs.  The commercial versions usually don't have the go 
modem protocol
enabled (except Many Faces).

At 01:07 PM 4/18/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> I have decided to try my hand at some go programming.  It will be mostly
> learning based so it will need to play many games against other engines.
> What is the best way to do this given that I won't have access to the source
> code of other engines.  It seems an ideal solution would be a program that
> supports the go modem protocol via stdin/stdout and acts as a referee as
> well as a graphical client for watching games.  Is there anything like this
> available?  Any comments are greatly appreciated.
David Fotland