[computer-go] Either GTP or kgsGTP should include Chat Commands.

["Bram Vandenbon" <bram.vandenbon@xxxxxxxxx>]

At the moment it seems there are no chat commands included in the
GTP-protocol.

This would be very handy to give Go-bots a new demension. You could use them
to get input from it's users. Would be very handy for Rengo games where the
bot listens to suggestions from the audiance. Making the users suggest moves
to the bot. Or you could let the bot be a teacher for go problems etc ...
That's why there should be some additional commands for this.

I understand that the GTP-protocol is ment to be a small set of commands, so
maybe the Go-servers should implement these commands. But this could lead to
all kinds of variations on different servers. So maybe GTP should at least
"suggest" standard-commands for this kind of functions.

I was writing a C# program to work with this. In about 15 minutes I included
all the standard GTP commands. It's just too bad there are no commands for
comments or chatting.

And I'm looking forward to a new set of optional commands to fix this.
for example something like this...

GTP-layer to Engine:
 Comment <username> <strength> <message>

Answer from Engine to GTP-layer
 = <message>
 ?
// ? --> for no response.


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