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

[Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@xxxxxxx>]

Elvire Scheibling wrote (on behalf of William Shubert):
> William Shubert has asked me to post his answer to the list:
> 
> [..]
> 
> Most engines using GTP right now just use stdin/stdout (for C
> programmers, that means just using "scanf()" or "getchar()" to read GTP
> commands, and "printf()" to write the responses back). I'm not sure if
> this is what you meant by "pipes" or not, stdin/stdout are usually pipes
> but could also be FIFOs or network sockets or whatever. In any case,
> this mechanism makes things incredibly easy for the engine author. Then
> the GTP server writer has to do the work of making sure that
> printf/scanf gets to the server properly.
> 
> There are other ways you could do this - kgsGtp (my GTP server program)
> can be configured to use any of 4 systems for the engine and server to
> communicate - but this is the easiest for most engine authors. GTP
> doesn't specify the means of connecting the engine to the server, but
> one would hope that any tournament would specify the mechanism to use in
> advance.

As far as I understand client/server architecture, engine is a server
and controller is a client.  So, as far as I can tell, kgsGtp is not
a server program, but a client program.

Paul
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