Re: [computer-go] GTP and Tourney in SmartGo 1.4

[Arend Bayer <arend.bayer@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Nick Wedd wrote:

> Insisting on GTP will exclude most competitors, as they don't support
> it.

I suppose that's not such a big issue once a GTP-GMP bridge is written.

> About five years ago, when many programs claimed to support GMP, the
> chance of two such programs actually being able to play an entire game
> by GMP was rather small.  If two of your entrants fail to get their game
> started, or play part of a game and then go to sleep, do you propose
> investigating which one is guilty of not doing the GTP stuff right, and
> giving the win to the other?

I would find that surprising to happen with the ease of testing GTP
support by running matches against another GTP engine with one of the
various GTP scripts.

Arend

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