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Xavier Combelle wrote:
As a future contestant, I prefer the GTP solution, but
the decision is for the organizer, what do they exactly want ?
If any organizer could answer me, I would be pleased.
Nick Wedd wrote:
> I want more entrants, and happy entrants.
Same here, for the last Computer Olympiads our primary goal was to make
it easy to participate. Therefore we did not want to enforce any
specific communication protocol.
Personally, however, I do recommend supporting (not enforcing) GMP
because it can help to gain time.
In the last tournament there were several participants who implemented
GTP and used it with GoGui as an interface. In principle this is nice
because GoGui can connect to other programs over a serial cable using
GMP. Unfortunately there were some (Java related) problems to get the
GMP bridge to work properly, and therefore many games had to be played
manually. It would be nice if this could be fixed. Moreover, I think it
would be nice if the old cgoban would be extended with GTP support.
BTW How do people feel about the increased opportunities for foul play
in network environments. It may be significantly harder for tournament
organizers to deal with (accusations of) foul play...