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Re: computer-go: head-to-head go engine testing



Heikki wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:22:35PM -0500, myb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > How would one test two go engines against each other? 
> 
> GnuGo used to come with a little perl script that played two programs
> against each other over the GMP. These days it is more likely the GTP (Go
> Text Protocol). 

No, the perl script you are probably thinking of (twogtp) uses the
GTP, not the GMP. There IS a program call twogmp, written by
J.-L. Martineau but it was never distributed with GNU Go (and
is written in C, not perl).

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~martinea/twogmp/twogmp.tar.gz

But the GTP and twogtp seem handiest for this sort of thing.

Dan