Re: [computer-go] How to play go with other programe?

[Peter Paul Elfferich <pp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Nick Wedd <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> But can GTP actually be used to communicate between two programs?  Its
> documentation is remarkably silent on this.  If it can be used to do
> this, what kind of physical connection does it require between the two
> computers?
>
> Or maybe it requires both programs to be running on the same computer?
> If so, what operating systems can it do this on?

Apparently go programs supporting GTP communicate through standard input and
output. This surprised me since I assumed socket connections would be more
powerful and not that much more difficult to implement.

The webpage of the previous link (http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/) also
contains links to some scripts to enable two go programs to talk gtp to
eachother.  I think these might not work on windows, since that doesn't have
all the nifty pipe support that *nixes have.

Perhaps there are some programs supporting gtp over socket connections out there
though. That should run fine on all platforms.

Greetings,

PP

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