Re: computer-go: Computer Go Tournament Program

[Daniel Bump <bump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> This  sounds great but  how about   adding  a Tromp-Taylor  setting in
> gnu-go?  I have  considered patching this in myself  but would it  get
> incorportated into the distribution if I went to the trouble? 
> 
> If this   is   done, then an   interface  could  use  the Tromp/Taylor
> agreement phase also but I assume gtp would require an extension.  The
> extension could be completely optional  and we would  still have a  TT
> autotester.  
> 
> Now a TT (Tromp/Taylor)  autotester would be a  nice thing because you
> could play many games  overnight    without having  to have a    human
> manually score all of them  in order to know they  were correct.  This
> is probably too  convenient and logical for most  of us, but  it seems
> like a good idea to some of us.
> 
> By  the way,  I do a  lot  of autotesting  between  versions of my own
> program  using TT  rules and  it's simple   and elegant.   I also have
> tested against   older versions  of gnugo  (There  is  little point in
> testing  newer versions since I  only win about 25%  of the games with
> 2.6 version)  and had to go  to a lot of  trouble  to design a scoring
> module that works  with gnu-go's habit of  ending the game whenever it
> feels like it.

Recent GNU Go also has a scoring module called aftermath which more
reliably plays out the game to the point where the scoring is
accurate. Because of this you might want to try 2.7.244.

Gunnar has the aftermath scoring accurate enough that he intends
to let GNU Go remove dead stones on NNGS. Perhaps we're already
doing that, he was testing it on Saturday.

Dan