Re: [computer-go] Computer Go tournament at EGF

[Chris Fant <chrisfant@xxxxxxxxx>]

> And yes, SlugGo would be
> MUCH faster if I had access to the internal data in Many Faces of
> Go rather than GNU Go. MFoG is much faster than GNU Go. But
> one is open source and the other is not, so the open source option
> is the only one I can use. I cannot know if using MFoG would be
> stronger or not. I am willing to get together with David Fotland to
> find out, if he thinks it is worth his time and is willing to let us see
> his internals. I am an independent academic and really only
> care about the ideas.

This has got me thinking about a commercial Go API.  What I mean is a
set of DLLs that provide all kinds of various Go-centric
functionallity.  Has this ever been tried by any of the commercial Go
programmers out there?  The only downside I can see is that someone
else could easily write a wrapper and enter it in tournaments as if it
were homegrown.  But that should not concern someone with commercial
interests.  I know GnuGo provides many functions through the GTP
interface, but that is not a traditional API and it's also not of
commercial strength.
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