Re: computer-go: Most simple Go rules

[Nick Wedd <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <200106272315.f5RNFMp16600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Daniel Hallmark
<dgh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>I haven't done any programming with the Go Modem Protocol, but assuming 
>the tournaments use a single standard protocol for communications, would 
>it not be possible to write an independent game-logging and move 
>validation application that could sit between the competitors and relay/
>snoop on all of their external communications.

Some of the strongest programs support the Go Modem Protocol, but do not
do so reliably.  I wish they did.

A program like the one you propose could have a use which you may not
have considered.  When program X and program Y, both claiming to support
GMP, are unable to use it to complete a game against each other, your
proposed program could point the finger at program X, and say "the GMP
specification says you should do [whatever].  You did not.  It is you
who is failing to support the protocol properly."  This might, I am ever
hopeful, lead to an improvement in program X.

Nick
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Nick Wedd