RE: computer-go: Most simple Go rules

["Grajdeanu, Adrian" <adrian.grajdeanu@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Wedd [mailto:nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 June, 2001 16:18
> To: computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: computer-go: Most simple Go rules

> I think this [Tom's]code assumes that the referee program and both 
> competitors
> will all be running on the same PC.  There are various snags 
> with this.

It doesn't have to run on the same compuer. The player * could point to some
proxy that talks to the player running on a different machine. In fact, not
only it could but it should, for exactly the reasons Nick outlined.

> I don't like 
>    const MAXMOVES=500;// a draw will be declared after this many moves
> This is not like anything in any published rule set.  It does 
> not solve
> any problem.  It encourages unsporting behaviour.

Still Nick, what would you do if the players would want to run forever.
Current professional programs won't, but I may enter into a competition two
programs that I wrote and they would tend to do that. How would you want to
have it handled? Personally I'm neither for nor against the MAXMOVES=500,
just looking for your oppinion.

Adrian