Re: computer-go: Computer Olympiad 2002, July 5-11, 2002

[Erik van der Werf <E.vanderWerf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I'm not the tournament director but my experience from last year is
that interfaces are not an important issue. If both sides support GMP
they may of course use a serial cable to play. Otherwise both sides will
play manually. The main rule is that both sides are able to see what's
on the opponents screen, and what they input into their program.

I think the best thing to do is to make a graphical interface which
allows you to communicate moves using the mouse. Don't forget an undo
function for the case that you accidentally click on a wrong
intersection. It might also be a good idea to be able to adjust timing
settings. 

Of course if all participants nicely implement GMP you can have a very
relaxed tournament...

Erik


PS Last year all chess games were played on real boards with real
clocks. When I asked some guy why they did this he said that some fraud
had occurred with the use of direct links. Apparently some of the
commercial guys (also) used serial links to play lots of games for
optimizing against opponents. However I don't know if this is still a
real issue because one could always write a program that just takes over
mouse-keyboard-screen control for doing the same thing.

PS2 In Shogi however, I know that all games were played using a serial
cable.


Mousheng Xu wrote:
> 
> Hi Erik,
> 
> What are the requirements for the computer go programs? For instance, what
> interface do you expect to use between go programs?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- Mousheng Xu
> 
> >From: Erik van der Werf <E.vanderWerf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: COMPUTER GO MAILING LIST <computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: computer-go: Computer Olympiad 2002, July 5-11, 2002
> >Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:48:09 +0100
> >
> >Dear Go-programmers,
> >
> >The next Computer Olympiad will take place july 5-11 in Maastricht (The
> >Netherlands). This year we hope to get enough participants to organize
> >Go tournaments on both the 19x19 and 9x9 board.
> >
> >If you're interested take a look at:
> >
> >http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/olympiad2002/
> >
> >Hope to see you in Maastricht,
> >Erik
> >
> >
> >PS An official call for participation will be send at a later date.
> 
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