Re: [computer-go] Re: Computer Go tournament thoughts

[Gunnar Farnebäck <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AvK wrote:
> For a game two players (or programs) are needed. They should
> agree on playing, timing, boardsize, whatever.
> Adding a third 'administrator' party would complicate things
> even more...

I would say that it is the agreeing business that is hairy. Adding a
third party has the potential to simplify matters.

> NB restarting of abandoned/escaped/disconnected games
> is an automatic feature for NNGS (only for registered players)
> 
> It requires a hairy dialog on the robot side, but it can be done.
> ( I've done it).

Yes, the protocol is quite bad here. Restarting is supported by
gnugoclient.

/Gunnar
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